Henry B. Eyring Quotes

When citizens testify before grand juries they are required to tell the truth. Without the truth, our criminal justice system cannot serve our nation or its citizens.

Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth.

Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.

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

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.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.

We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes the act of seeing and knowing by personal experience, as well as the act of giving evidence.

People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.

It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.

It is not my responsibility to determine whether Mr. Kavanaugh deserves to sit on the Supreme Court. My responsibility is to tell the truth.

I'm not going to back down from my controversial positions. If I were to do that, my base would be gone. And so my strategy is just, continue to speak the truth, even if it is controversial.

I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.