Belief Quote by Errol Morris

“Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer.”

— Daniel Black

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for…

— Iain Duncan Smith

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

— Richard Dawkins

“The league lied. They had the evidence and chose to ignore it. They had the evidence at least since 2005, when one unlikely scientist,…

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

— Adam Smith

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

— Donald Rumsfeld

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what…

— Sam Harris

There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying…

— Donald Rumsfeld

You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your…

— David Auburn

A good theoretical account must explain all of the evidence that we see. If it doesn't work everywhere, we have no idea what we…

— Angus Deaton

“People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn’t fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight to evidence…

— Paula Stokes

“You know, of course, that as prophesied by Moroni, there are those whose research relating to Joseph Smith is not for the purpose of…

— D. Todd Christofferson