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  • INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

  • A pathfinder's job is hard enough — blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.

    Jobs   Worry   Way  
  • To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

    Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan
  • In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

  • For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay.

  • So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

    Doubt   Obscurity   Facts  
    Cornelius Tacitus (1860). “The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. With Notes ...”, p.119
  • Isn't that something-to know your own soul by hearsay, instead of its own tidings? Why should I let a preacher tell me if I had one or not? If I could believe I hada soul, all by myself, then I could listen to its tidings all by myself.

    Believe   Soul   Should  
    Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.101, Dial Press
  • Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

  • It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

    Father   Fall   Atheism  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.8, Booklassic
  • The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

    Science   Facts   Reason  
  • I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

    Artist   Ideas   Trying  
  • Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

    Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan
  • My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

    Eye   Ears   Hearsay  
    Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.130, Pan Macmillan
  • How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

  • The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan.

    Three   Cases   Made  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

    Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.112, Courier Corporation
  • I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.

    Past   Long   Joy  
  • Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

    Men   Oysters   Water  
    Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”
  • The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

    Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan
  • I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

  • Free yourself from all believes, all norms. See that you live completely with beliefs. Free yourself from second hand information. See in you clearly what is beautiful. All that is beautiful in you is right. Look at the situation with an open mind, free from hearsay. The solution is in the situation. So, see the situation clearly with an open mind. Then the choiceless decision comes.

  • Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.

    Men   Giving   Soul  
  • I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.

    Pain   Men   Race  
  • People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

  • We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?

    People   Gossip   World  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

    Family   Mom   Education  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.
  • If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.

    A. H. Almaas (2011). “Diamond Heart: Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery”, p.63, Shambhala Publications
  • We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.

    "Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living".
  • Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

  • Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

    Tradition   Form   Notion  
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