“History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.” LyingHistoryStudyEventsWitnessRecallsAccuracyEyewitnesses Author:Nancy Pickard
“Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.” KindSpiritualImaginationStrangePoetCircumstancesSightSupremeOwnersSurroundEndowmentEyewitnesses Author:Marie Corelli
“I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.” IndividualBloodFashionColdLettersAccountsArmyCommittedProofChineseBehaveElsewhereContinuingConvincingCredibilityCiviliansAtrocitiesEyewitnessesAtrocities Committed Author:Koki Hirota
“No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.” MatterFormLawCultureEvidenceNo Matter WhatCourtLowestTestimonyEyewitnesses Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.” WorldStoriesUseLyingTurnsDifferencesNovelWonderfulCleverPerceiveSlyEyewitnessesEpigraphs Author:Julian Barnes
“An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.” ArtArtistEvidenceAccountsPhotographWorks Of ArtDocumentariesEyewitnesses Author:Dieter Roth
“Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.” PeopleWayMindBelieveLittlesFacesLife IsValuesAccountsOptimisticSwearNaiveOutlookOpen MindBeing PositiveFace ValueOutlook On LifeEyewitnesses Author:Rhys Darby
“However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away that I didn't know when we started is that memories are completely susceptible to change. And this is, you know, one of the many reasons why certain people are trying to get it taken out - eyewitness testimony in court cases because it's very unreliable.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingReasonStoriesCertainMemoriesCasesTakenNeededCourtReason WhyTestimonySusceptibleUnreliableEyewitnessesCourt Cases Author:Pete Docter
“The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.” FactsHappensLawLyingFrontsCourtTrustedReportersTestimonyEyewitnesses Author:Rob Roberge
“One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder. He was interviewing me on a book I had written on the New Testament of the Bible called Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, and we talked about the dating of the books of the New Testament, and I said, "Well, the consensus is that the gospels were written some forty to seventy years after the crucifixion." And he stopped me and said, "Wait a minute, Bishop, that means they couldn't have been written by eyewitnesses."” YearsWellsMeanHas BeensSaidBookShowsNightGuyWaitingWrittenMinutesLateDatingFortyTomsFundamentalismTestamentSeventiesConsensusNew TestamentBishopsCrucifixionTalk ShowsGreat ExperiencesLate NightEyewitnesses Author:John Shelby Spong
“I read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diz Del Castillo, which I recommend to a lot of people. He was an eyewitness of [Hernando] Cortez's conquest of Mexico. It's at once very brutal and at times very plodding. It tells what they did everyday, so days can go by and nothing happens. Then all of the sudden they are torturing and doing all these dark things.” PeopleHappensDarkEverydayThings HappenMexicoBrutalConquestSpainDark ThingsEyewitnesses Author:Laila Lalami
“When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.” IdeasReasonNightMemoriesCreativeCrimeSceneAccountsAwakeFragmentsUnreliableFragmentationEyewitnesses Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-” NeedsAccountsPlentyNosesNarrow-mindedEyewitnesses Author:J. K. Rowling
“My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.” IfsWatchesDangerousTypeNewsLocalsMy SisterInvestigationShelvesHeadlinesRetainingEyewitnesses Author:David Sedaris
“A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's Pliny the younger, the famous Roman writer," Amy supplied. She bent down to read the English portion of the tablet. "Right. In A.D. 79, Pliny chronicled the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It's one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of a major disaster." Dan yawned. "Doesn't this remind you of the clue hunt? You know–you telling me a bunch of boring stuff, and me not listening?” ThinkingKnowsMadeFacesGuyNamesStuffListeningMajorsDestructionAccountsBoringDisasterBunchPortionsLoadBentClueHuntsAmyBronzeTabletsEruptionPompeiiEyewitnessesFunny Name Book:The Medusa Plot Source: The Medusa Plot
“Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.” IntelligenceTestimonyUnreliableEyewitnesses Author:Chris French
“The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.” MaySometimesSeemsBlessingTravelTravelerComplaintsShockingBoastTrophiesEnrichmentLife AlteringEyewitnesses Author:Paul Theroux
“Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.” StoriesFunnyWittyHilariousSpoilGood StoryArrivalsEyewitnesses Author:Mark Twain
“My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb” PeopleThinkingWellsLooksPersonsI CanShowsAgeLastsPastYoungAsksRealizingSonMarriedHollywoodGoldenAsk MeMemorableClimbsMy SonOur PastLaddersYour PastReflectingGolden AgeBogartEyewitnesses Author:Lauren Bacall
“The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing.... Many of the high-quality sighting reports involve certain objective aspects, which, to an open-minded bystander, are quite impressive.” CertainQualityOffersAspectObjectivesDataReportsQuantityNeverthelessSubjectiveImpressiveUfoOpen MindedIntriguingHigh QualityBystandersEyewitnesses Author:Peter Davenport
“After investigating the UFO phenomenon all over the world, after studying thousands of pages of released government documents, and interviewing eyewitnesses and insiders, including generals, intelligence officers, cosmonauts and astronauts, military and commercial pilots, I do not have the shadow of a doubt anymore that we are indeed visited by extraterrestrial intelligences. The evidence just does not allow another conclusion.” WorldDoeGovernmentStudyDoubtMilitaryPagesEvidenceShadowIncludingConclusionPhenomenonOfficersPilotsDocumentsAstronautUfoInvestigatingInsidersExtraterrestrialEyewitnessesIntelligence Officers Author:Michael Hesemann
“Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, dead at 53. Over Barcelona today, the famed reindeer was hit by a flock of seagulls and a 747. Eyewitnesses report, that the reindeer in Spain was hit mainly by the plane.” TodayRedPlanesReportsSpainFlocksBarcelonaSeagullReindeerEyewitnesses Author:Colin Mochrie
“I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in the future. I would give the coming generations a weapon against any resurgence of such evil. My eyewitness account would record the barbarous acts, and also show the way to stop them.” WayGivingStillsShowsFightingEvilVoiceRecordsGenerationsWeaponsDecidedAccountsNaziResurgenceEyewitnesses Author:Friedrich Kellner
“I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.” MomentsCulturePopsUsaHistoricPop CultureEyewitnessesAmerican Pop Culture Author:Jean Shepherd
“I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.” PeopleWayRelateEyewitnesses Author:Richard Neutra
“If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with his Corinthian readers by lying so blatantly.” IfsGivingLyingLosesReaderListsResurrectionCredibilityApostlesApostle PaulCorinthiansEyewitnesses Author:Norman Geisler
“I quote the late Ed Murow. ... He said: 'Look, people listen to me when they want an eyewitness account. 'They think I'm a pretty good reporter. But when it comes to my opinions, mine are not worth anymore than the guy at the end of the bar.' And I believe that about myself.” PeopleThinkingWantBelieveLooksSaidEndsGuyPoliticsI BelieveOpinionMinesLateAccountsBarsReportersListen To MeEyewitnesses Author:Dan Rather