Quotes About Verification

I never said most of the things attributed to me. Always check with the Quote Investigator website before posting, like I did when I was alive.

I didn't get the impression that the policeman cared much about the whole thing either. After another thirty minutes of ruthless interrogation ('Can you ve'fy you eat banan' pancake?') he let me go asking me not to leave Khao San within 24 hours

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

Any decision we think we are about to make is something that can be Googled before we commit to a choice.

Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

The historian, on the contrary, cannot experiment and can rarely observe. Instead, the historian has to collect his own evidence, knowing, all the while, that some of it is useless and much of it unreliable." -Professor Charles Homer Haskins

I love the Internet, or at least I used to, but it's not where you go for the truth." Edward almost asks, Where do you go for the truth? But the question feels vast, unspeakable in his throat, so instead he says good night and goes next door.

Easy enough to say you come from a wealthy family if no one can verify that fact.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.

We need proof in our society.

I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.

Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

I've done whatever it takes to prove I am a clean athlete.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

O God, you have given to mortals a sure method Of telling the gold that is pure from the counterfeit; Why is there no mark engraved upon men's bodies, By which we could know the true ones from the false ones?

We heard it from three people so it must be true

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

First of all - I only believe what I see.

You have to make sure there's a high degree of confidence that whoever won the race did it fair and square.