Airline Quote by Leonard Read

I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability, supported…

— Lord Chesterfield

The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes…

— Thomas Cooper

“In public and in private life, it often happens that there is simply no time to collect the relevant facts or to weigh their…

— Aldous Huxley

“We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation. That is, we are so persuaded of the rightness of our judgment as to invalidate…

— Wm. Paul Young

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

— Freya Stark

There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

— Sophocles

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we…

— Pat Robertson

I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant…

— James Madison

“When we are asked to swear in American courts of law—that we will tell “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”—we…

— Carl Sagan

“In a court of law,' he said at last 'a witness takes his oath to speak the truth: his own truth, that is. He…

— Eleanor Catton

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

— John Grisham