Testimony Quotes
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If I [Jesus] testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.
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I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses."
james madison— Letter to William Bradford (September 1773), quoted in The Lustre of Our Country : The American Experience of Religious Freedom (2000) by John Thomas Noonan, p. 66
See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
jesus christ— The Gospel of Matthew 8:4 (KJV), said to a man cured of leprosy.
Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.
edward jenks— Chapter XIX, Modern Civil Procedure, p. 360
But death blinds you, unaware of man’s fall –An autumn that steals the flower from the flower peddler.Death is testimony of god’s love and mercy for man –A promise made between autumn and spring.
ghani khan— Death, st. 3-4
This is a personal testimony, a testimony of my own experience of thought and life. It is not intended to be objective and makes no claim to establish eternal truths. In fact I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.
lin yutang— Preface
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
albert jay nock— p. 44 (Our Enemy, the State (1935))
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi— Basic Education (1951, p. 89)
Gloria boni hominis, testimonium bon× conscienti×. The testimony of a good conscience is the good man's glory.
— c.1413 De Imitatione Christi, bk.2, ch.6, section1.
Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.
antonio gramsci— Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
yitzhak rabin— 1994 Nobel Peace Prize lecture (10 December 1994)
[It] is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
george saintsbury— Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008) p. 32
Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
seneca the younger— Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II:32, Defense of Seneca and Plutarch.
The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that testimony which, I believe, God bears in every human heart, however dull, to those great truths which the Bible reveals. This, and not logic, is the way to grow in religious knowledge, to know that the truths of religion are not shadows, but deep realities.
john campbell shairp— P. 37. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The very structures, the corridors, the rooms and offices, are eloquent testimony to our past.
john allen fraser— Chapter 2, The Parliament Buildings, p. 28
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ... no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
David Hume— Section 10 : Of Miracles Pt. 1; Variant: A wise man... proportions his belief to the evidence.
When anyone tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority, which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he relates; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.
David Hume— Section 10 : Of Miracles Pt. 1
" … no such individual would find the Golden Rule surprising in any way because at its base lies the foundation of most human interactions and exchanges and it can be found in countless texts throughout recorded history and from around the world--a testimony to its universality. "
michael shermer— Speaking of one who has never heard of the Golden Rule, as mentioned in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingShermer (2004). Science of Good and Evil. p. 25.
Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worshipfully and take notes. He did not, in other words, leave a lot of breaks in his testimony to allow for discussion. For the moment, that was fine, since it made it easier for Richard to drink.
neal stephenson— Day 2 (Part I: Nine Dragons)
The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened .:;.:;. You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed. Race hatred, violence, idolatries they still flourish.
elie wiesel— The Watchtower, June 15, 1995; Will Hatred Ever End?
Ingenuity is one thing, and simple testimony another, and plain truth, I take it, needs no flowers of speech.
Lord Mansfield— Wilkes v. Wood (1763), 19 How. St. Tr. 1176.
Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.
— Chapter XIX, Modern Civil Procedure, p. 360
...the veil is a symbol of sexual apartheid and the segregation of the sexes. In countries where Islam rules, like in Iran , the separate entrances for women in certain government offices; separate areas for women’s seating on buses for example; the banning of women from certain public arenas like sport stadiums; a curtain dividing the Caspian sea for segregated swimming and so on is what it means in practice to be a female under Islam. That people transgress these rules daily is a testimony to their humanity and not the laws or state that imposes it by force.
— Maryam Namazie (22 March 2007). Veiling and Sexual Apartheid. Islam Watch. Retrieved on 2007-08-22.
See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
— 8:4 (KJV) Said to a man cured of leprosy.
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi, in Famous Quotes from 100 Great People, p.1079
There is of course no extraordinary fact resting on testimony only, of which it is not possible to presume some error in the observation or reporting, if we be set upon finding one.
— p.2 (Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859))
The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened . . . You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed. Race hatred, violence, idolatries they still flourish.
elie wiesel— Elie Wiesel, The Watchtower, June 15, 1995; Will Hatred Ever End?
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on the confession in open court.
— Article III of the U.S. Constitution
What is that ‘something’, some inherent strength? Doubtless it lies in the liberal character of the Indian civilization, which allows for cross-fertilization with other cultures, without losing its own identity. Even time (kala), the great devourer, has stood testimony to the fact that the deep foundations of Indian culture could not be shaken either by internal upheavals, however great may have been their magnitude.... " the soul of India lives on!"
— B B Lal, Archaeologist, [41]. (Quotes on Hinduism)
