59 Corroboration Quotes

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Famous Corroboration Quotes

Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. — Elizabeth Loftus

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — W. S. Gilbert

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. - Tacitus

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. — Tacitus

One witness one liar; more witnesses, all liars — Greek Proverbs

An ounce of proof is worth a ton of assertions. — American Proverbs

Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports. — Sun Tzu

Believe and be confirmed. — John Milton

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. — Michel de Montaigne

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. — Voltaire

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness. — Mark Twain

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o'er. — Plautus

If you say something and back it up with your actions, you will provide the 'proof' for people who are listening to you, and they will much more willingly follow your lead. — Jim Rohn

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves. — Harold Geneen

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words. — Frank Herbert

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears. — Heraclitus

Short Corroboration Quotes

  • No one wants advice -- only corroboration. — John Steinbeck
  • But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. — Michael Shermer
  • There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth. — Walt Whitman
  • A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground. — Chris Pratt
  • People don't want advice...only corroboration. — John Steinbeck
  • Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. — Sayings
  • People do not want advice - they want corroboration. — John Steinbeck
  • Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid. — Han Fei

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More Corroboration Quotes

Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, corroborating the disciples' conviction that they encountered the resurrected Jesus. That's an avalanche of data. — Lee Strobel

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries. — Colin Powell

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. — John Foxe

There are more than 3500 military and commercial aircraft pilot reports of encounters worldwide; many cases have corroborating radar documentation and multiple witnesses both on the ground and in the air. — Steven M. Greer

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years. — Richard Dawkins

Some of my most outrageous nights- I can only believe actually happened because of corroborating evidence. No wonder I'm famous for partying! The ultimate party- if it's any good- you can't remember it. — Keith Richards

As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as... — Robert Rankin

The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process, that is by the completion of self-reflection, and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves. — Jurgen Habermas

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence. — Victoria Toensing

All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock. — John Burroughs

I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation. — J. G. Ballard

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65] — Julian Barnes

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies. — Charles Horton Cooley

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past. — Robert Nozick

I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them. — Paul Laffoley

[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory. — Elie Wiesel

For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters. — Joseph McGinty Nichol

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as. — William James

Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot — William James

Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified. — Thomas Huxley

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality. — George Eliot

Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy. — Peter Medawar

The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur. — John Dewey

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book. — Alan Bennett

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