Insufficient Evidence Quotes

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

Why did the British authorities wait eight months before charging me - and then drop the charges, claiming there was insufficient evidence for prosecution when I had confessed to the leak from the start?

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

If I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

One swallow maketh not summer.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.