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The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

— William Kingdon Clifford

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✓Similar Perspectives

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.

— Hans Blix

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

— Paul Ricoeur

In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.

— Simon Greenleaf

Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

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

— Paul Ricoeur

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

— Henry David Thoreau

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

— Isaac Barrow

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.

— Jim Garrison

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

— Stanley Baldwin

✗Opposing Perspectives

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

— Paul Ricoeur