Joanna Southcott Quotes

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Time trieth truth.

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

We need proof in our society.

I have a box of evidence that's going to a certain person should anything happen to me, so if you top me off, it's still going to that person, and the truth will come out.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

Proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

You underestimate John Bolton at your peril.

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

If you see crazy coming, cross the street!

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.

I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are." "Land mines?

Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.