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The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.

— Simon Greenleaf

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

— Eric Hoffer

The truth is more important than the facts.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.

— Hans Jonas

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

— Paul Ricoeur

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

— Walter Benjamin

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

— Mark Rothko

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

— Paul Ricoeur

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

— Henry Mayhew

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

— Ibrahim Babangida

✗Opposing Perspectives

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

— David Mamet