Reasonable Doubt Quotes:

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

- Zig Ziglar

source: FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 08, 2012

topic: Spiritual, Perseverance, Giving Up, Reasonable Doubt, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

- Alan Dershowitz

topic: Doubt, Criminals, Trials, Search For Truth, Reasonable Doubt

Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Inspirational, Success, Atheist, Inspirational Buddhist, Nothing Matters

A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.

- John Adams

topic: Doors, Law, Doubt, Jury, Jurors

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

- Lord Hailsham

topic: Men, Doubt, Facts, Reasonable Doubt

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

- Alan Dershowitz

topic: Thinking, Law, Presumption Of Innocence, Reasonable Doubt, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

- Robert Breault

topic: Kindness, Compassion, Doubt, Reasonable Doubt

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Doubt, Republic, Rewards, Larceny, Public Welfare

Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.

- Michael Connelly

topic: Jobs, Color, Ifs And, Defense Attorneys, Reasonable Doubt

Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hate, Two, Long, Reasonable Doubt

I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt.

- George Kukla

source: "Despite Global Warming, Scientists Say to Expect Another Ice Age—In 5,000 Years". George Kukla's remarks at the international symposium convened by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, www.columbia.edu. February 25, 2000.

topic: Ice, Doubt, Age, Ice Age, Reasonable Doubt

Easiest job you could ever have... whoever gets to put Michael Jackson in a witness chair and create reasonable doubt.

- Richard Jeni

source: "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

topic: Jobs, Doubt, Chairs, Reasonable Doubt

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Years, White, House, Reasonable Doubt, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To me, pretty good is a linguistic statistic that falls somewhere in between more likely than not and beyond a reasonable doubt, et avoides the pitfalls arising from the belief in complete objectivity.

- Robert A. Burton

topic: Fall, Humility, Objectivity, Reasonable Doubt, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out. Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary.

- Jayceon Terrell Taylor

source: Song: The Documentary, Album: The Documentary

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Doubt, Certificates, Reasonable Doubt

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

- Edwin Meese

topic: White, House, Doubt, Reasonable Doubt, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Of the Divine character of the Bible, I think, no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain a reasonable doubt, For myself, I must say, that having for many years made the evidences of Christianity the subject of close study, the result has been a firm and increasing conviction of the authenticity and plenary inspiration of the Bible. It is indeed the Word of God.

- Simon Greenleaf

topic: Inspiration, Heart, Character, Reasonable Doubt

Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under known options) is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence.

- Kent Hovind

topic: Scary, Doubt, Way, Reasonable Doubt

Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.

- Lee Child

topic: Character, Evil, Doubt, Reasonable Doubt, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Women watched for the spectacular performances of the men , and there can be no reasonable doubt that the presence of an audience is a very important factor in shaping the men's behavior. In fact, it is probable that the men are more exhibitionistic because the women admire their performances. Conversely, there can be no doubt that the spectacular behavior is a stimulus which summons the audience together, promoting in the women the appropriate behavior.

- Gregory Bateson

topic: Men, Doubt, Important, Reasonable Doubt, Appropriate Behavior

Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge that we can identify many places where there should be evidence, but there is not. The absence of that evidence allows us to rule out the existence of this God beyond a reasonable doubt.

- Victor J. Stenger

topic: Doubt, Religion, Jehovah, Reasonable Doubt, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt