Hearsay Quotes

36 quotes by 32 authors

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. — Hosea Ballou
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. — Thomas Carlyle
.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted… — Michel de Montaigne
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. — George Bernard Shaw
One eye-witness weighs more than ten hearsays â€” Seeing is believing all the world over. — Plautus
I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay. — Edward Abbey
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we… — George Santayana
INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than… — Ambrose Bierce
Free yourself from all believes, all norms. See that you live completely with beliefs. Free yourself from second hand information. See in you clearly what… — Jean Klein
In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay. — David Tang
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as… — Thomas Carlyle
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious… — Tacitus
The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated. — Vannoccio Biringuccio
I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with… — C.S. Lewis
The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it… — Alexander Girard
Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is… — Joan Erikson
About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over… — David Tang
People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if… — Rick Barry
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay,… — Billy Crudup
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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