Trial Quotes - page 2

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. (Terence)
All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
That is why a criminal trial is not a search for truth. Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. View quote
Fred Hoyle
If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. View quote
Margaret Atwood
A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial. View quote
Philo
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. View quote
Teri Garr
The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them. View quote
Camille Paglia
If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner-stone of our liberty. View quote
Horace Walpole
Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax. View quote
John Waters
I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth. View quote
William Whewell
Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said. View quote
F. Lee Bailey
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. View quote
Henry Fielding
Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world. View quote
Jane Austen
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard. (Kenneth Tynan)
Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles. View quote
Bob Dylan
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives. View quote
James Hudson Taylor
If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now? View quote
Hermann Göring