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Quotes About Verification

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
~ Mason Cooley
If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
~ Jimmy Wales
Its easy to research on the Internet, but its also easy to get the wrong answers. Not all that you read on Google is correct.
~ Jock Zonfrillo
Facts matter a great deal to me.
~ Jake Tapper
Johnny did not bother to do a background check on Damien.
~ Garrett Sutton
4. Eyewitness testimony supports historical claims. Eyewitness testimony is usually stronger than a secondhand account.
~ Gary R. Habermas
We must hold to the conviction that it is the nature of truth to prevail when its time has come, and that it appears only when this time has come, and therefore never appears prematurely, nor finds a public not ripe to receive it; also we must accept that the individual needs that this should be so in order to verify what is as yet a matter for himself alone, and to experience the conviction, which in the first place belongs only to a particular individual, as something universally held.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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!
~ George Bernard Shaw
The longer I live the more I see 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.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Most of these quotations on Goodreads are shit I never said. That's because idiots submit them, and Goodreads never checks their authenticity.
~ George Carlin
Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.
~ John Foxe
While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
~ Kara Swisher
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
~ Denis Diderot
As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'
~ Nick Denton
[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.
~ Luis von Ahn
Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."
~ Misty Copeland
I wanted to double-check with you that your mailing address is still the same as the one you sent us back in April? If you're a college student I know address changes are really common at this time of year!
~ Marilynne Robinson
The trouble with Goodreads is that they never authenticate these quotations of famous people.
~ Aristotle
Don't believe anything I've told you—merely because I said it.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Le cattive notizie comportano in qualche modo la garanzia della propria verità. Sono le buone notizie che hanno bisogno di conferma
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is not what we know, but what we can prove.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Yes, to verify how far bruises may be produced after death. I saw him at it with my own eyes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle