Quotes Tagged "hearsay"

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.

Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.