“History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.” LyingHistoryStudyEventsWitnessRecallsAccuracyEyewitnesses Author:Nancy Pickard
“It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.” WayTryingCountryLyingTravelAssumingWitnessBagsFunny TravelNaiveBribeInvestigators Author:Jim Garrison
“If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy child," go to God's throne, and lie down at the foot of it, and let the first thought be, "My Father in heaven;" and that will brighten, that will establish, that will make omnipotent in your life, the witness of the Spirit that you are the child of God.” IfsFirstsChildrenJoySpiritLyingFatherHeavenClearFeetGloryDefenseWitnessPerpetualThronesChild Of GodOmnipotentFather In HeavenUnwavering Author:Alexander MacLaren
“I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.” KnowsMenEyeLyingCrimeMurderVictimGuiltDenyWitnessAbsolutionAccusers Book:The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing) Source: The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)
“It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.” ShouldLyingAtheismSticksPositive AtheismSensesWitnessWitchDeceivingAstonishingOld WomanChimneysBrooms Author:Michel de Montaigne