Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen."
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Witness
104 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Wayne Dyer
Author, Motivational Speaker
"I am patient and loving with my fearful thoughts. Be patient and loving with every fearful thought. Practice observing your fears as a witness, and you'll see them dissolve."
Heraclitus
Philosopher
"Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears."
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Spiritual Leader
"There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Be the witness of your thoughts."
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"The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets."
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"God is a witness that cannot be sworn."
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"Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments."
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"History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth."
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"Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all."
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"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand"
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"When you listen to a witness, you become a witness."
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"Ares gives his verdict without witnesses."
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"The silent bear no witness against themselves."
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"To be human you must bear witness to justice."
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"...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family."
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"Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]"
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"Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator."
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"The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe."
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"They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness."
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"Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness."
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"For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness."
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"Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them."
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"When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in."
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"The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses."
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