Assertion Quote by David Corn Download Open image “This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.” — David Corn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assertion Evidence Important Inspirational Love
“...a statement from you is more convincing than all the proofs in the world.” — Émile Gaboriau Copy Share Image
A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man. — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication.... — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
“When, indeed, is a thing proven? Only when an individual has accumulated in his own consciousness enough observations, impressions, reasonings and feelings to satisfy… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“it is unmistakable; it does not need other proofs to back it up; it is self-evident and attests to its own truth.” — John W. Loftus Copy Share Image
I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
When Hillary Clinton was in the Clinton White House as first lady, the left - the right accused her of being wide eyed radical… — David Corn Copy Share Image
There`s a guy named Richard Spencer, who is the intellectual guru of the movement, according to Breitbart and he says, basically - this is… — David Corn Copy Share Image
I think choosing Steve Bannon as a chief strategist this is a stunning, historic decision for Donald Trump in a bad way. Stephen Bannon… — David Corn Copy Share Image
This is the problem with foreign policy - talking about foreign policy in a political context. Politics is binary. People win and lose elections.… — David Corn Copy Share Image
Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go. — David Corn Copy Share Image
I do think John Kerry has tried awfully hard to work with Russia and others to have a lasting, significant cease-fire. — David Corn Copy Share Image
I think Hillary Clinton has a lot of lee way to go, either direction, and to probably most likely try to fudge it and… — David Corn Copy Share Image
I still am mystified about why Donald Trump is out there tweeting praise of Vladimir Putin, and still kind of denying and dismissing whether… — David Corn Copy Share Image
Donald Trump says we shouldn`t be involved in these Middle East wars, let them fight it out themselves. And yet here he is talking… — David Corn Copy Share Image
Breitbart is sort of an ill-defined, loose-knit collection of a wing of the conservative movement. What do they do? The rant against immigration, Muslims,… — David Corn Copy Share Image
Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead. — David Corn Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump should be delegitimized for many reasons. And his response to this hacking is also cause for delegitimization. But to say… — David Corn Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention of mine;… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones.… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
