Evidence Quotes - Page 17

• Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Philosophy, Tests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• (Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill Clinton to undergo a memory clarification. On the diamond, no one ever wrung more success from less natural talent than Rose did. But his second autobiography - which refutes the first - makes worse the mess he has made.

  George Will

  Memories, Natural Talent, Dna

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• I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

  Mason Cooley

  Worry, Ordinary, Watches

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• The L.A. Times reports that al Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and President Bush is talking tough. In fact he said he will attack the minute he has evidence his approval rating is under 45 percent.

  Jay Leno

  Approval Rating, Iran, Talking

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• The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “God's Workmanship”, p.61, Discovery House

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• All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Nature, Sound

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

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• Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Analysis

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• It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Justice, Mind, Ordinary

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.424, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law, Sitting, Sanctions

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• The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  War, Possibility, Currents

  "Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says Middle East may see a war in the near future". Press TV website, June 06, 2007.

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• Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Views, Atheism

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley”

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• Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ornaments, Jewelry, Vulgarity

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• A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

  P. D. James

  Prejudice, Letters, May

  P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.85, Vintage

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• The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Like Love, Peculiar, Superstitions

  "London Perceived" by V. S. Pritchett, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Ch. 1, (p. 14), 1962.

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• If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.

  Gordon Allport

  Simple, Emotional, Light

  "The Nature of Prejudice" by Gordon Allport, (p. 9), 1954.

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• While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it remains to be seen whether these decisions lead to predictable errors that create systematic mispricings upon which rational investors can readily and economically capitalize.

  John C. Bogle

  Errors, Decision, Investing

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• The debate can be put in the form of the question: Resolved, that the best of money managers cannot be demonstrated to be able to deliver the goods of superior portfolio-selection performance. Any jury that reviews the evidence, and there is a great deal of relevant evidence, must at least come out with the Scottish verdict: Superior investment performance is unproved.

  Paul Samuelson

  Investing, Able, Portfolios

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• 99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.

  William J. Bernstein

  Skills, Investing, Fund

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• Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

  Michael Jensen

  Investing, Random Chance, Littles

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• There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life.

  Michael Jensen

  Investing, Literature, Facts

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• Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors and engaging high-quality investment managers to provide professional insight. The conventional wisdom ends up hopelessly unwise, as evidence shows an overwhelming rate of failure by mutual funds to deliver on promises.

  David F. Swensen

  Sleep, Night, Promise

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• Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

  Jeremy Siegel

  Historical, Investing, Weight

  Jeremy J. Siegel (1998). “Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-term Investment Strategies”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

  Benjamin Graham

  People, Investing, Clear

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.11, Prabhat Prakashan

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• There is very little evidence that we give a hoot about profit.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Giving, Littles, Management

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• The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

  Michael Medved

  Support, Religion, Littles

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