Johnnie Cochran Quotes

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship. The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

…the burden of proof rests always upon the advocates of change.

Don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.

Logic is pointless.

I'm here to make sense.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

I'm not trying to prove anything.