Bayonets Quote by John Henry Wigmore

Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the…

— John Henry Wigmore

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see…

— James Lipton

“Write what you know best. If you can't survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you won't survive an interview with a…

— Linda F. Radke

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not…

— Mark Twain

I can't begin to describe how humiliating it is for a law-abiding citizen to be cross-examined in a court of law for a crime…

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!

— Leonard Ravenhill

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind…

— Pete Seeger

If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent…

— Simon Greenleaf

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

— Timothy Keller

“In my opinion, legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind. People talk about evidence as…

— George Eliot

“It was found in practice that when the examinations were conducted in a spirit which led up to conclusions which were bits of advice,…

— Carl R. Rogers

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language…

— Frank Luntz