Quotes About Truth

John Grisham

Since the police knew who killed Debbie Carter, they helpfully informed Melvin Hett.

In that case, the truck driver took the stand, swore to tell the truth, then lied for three hours. He said Gretchen crossed the center line and caused the wreck, made it sound as though she was trying to kill herself. The coal companies are clever and they never send down one truck at a time. They travel in pairs, so there's always a witness ready to testify.

Hardy said Ricky might be locked up in some institution for months, maybe years, if the doctors weren't told the truth about what the boys witnessed. Hardy was okay, not too bright, and he was making the mistake of talking to Mark as if he were five years old instead of eleven.

If the video camera was loaded with a tape, it was never seen. If Detective Smith made a report of the interview, it was never produced in the legal proceedings that followed.

It's just as well that we don't believe in fair trials because we damned sure don't have them. The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let's get him off the streets.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, and they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

Repeat something enough and folks will start to believe it. Mr. Mount had always taken the position that the presumption of innocence is a joke nowadays.

crime? No, he was not. He insisted he knew nothing

The Chief's son is now the constable, so any investigation into your accident will go nowhere. It's all being covered up, as I'm sure you suspect. But Gritt knows the truth, and he thinks he has the evidence to prove it. That's why he wants to talk to you.

By chasing the wrong suspect, the police and prosecutors had allowed the real killer's trail to grow cold. He has yet to be found.

plan. You've got to explain to the judge or whoever that this is all a mistake. I'm

Okay, let's have it.

It's not slander if it's true.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

Asked point-blank about Mary's opinion of him, Melville dissembled.

Cecil's minute is too good to be true. It is almost certainly misleading.

On the second day he was tortured, and confessed to everything.

On the scaffold, he shouted out the truth to the assembled crowd.

He denied everything he had said about carrying the two Glasgow letters from Mary to Bothwell.

As soon as he had trawled through the confession, he must have realized how flimsy

All I see is someone running away from who he really is. I ain't running away, I called back. And that was the biggest lie I'd ever told.

The development of adversary criminal trial raised an acute theoretical challenge, which has never been satisfactorily resolved in the Anglo-American tradition: how to justify the truth-impairing tendencies of a procedure that remits to partisans the work of gathering and presenting the evidence upon which accurate adjudication depends.

The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.