Circumstantial Quotes
23 quotes by 20 authors
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection…
— George Santayana
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing.... Many…
— Peter Davenport
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There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a court…
— Jean Ritchie
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As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of…
— George Washington
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We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.
— Alfred Wegener
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
— Cai Guo-Qiang
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All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.
— Joshua Ferris
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The evidence for indicting immunisations for SIDS is circumstantial, but compelling. However, the keepers of the keys to medical-research funds are not interested in researching…
— Frederick Douglass
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The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind,…
— Criss Jami
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I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they…
— Elisabeth Moss
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Circumstantial evidence is evidence.
— Bernard Goldberg
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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
— Horace Walpole
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very…
— Jodi Picoult
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The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
— Barton Gellman
Who Wrote These Circumstantial Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 23 Circumstantial Quotes as follows: