Mason Cooley Quotes

If you didn’t write it down, you didn’t say it.

If You Do Not Write It, You Never Said It

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.

God is love, but get it in writing.

It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

The most obdurate incredulity may be shamed or silenced by facts.

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should he committed to writing, and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events: its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself...

My record speaks for itself.

Protect yourself by always having a record of what transpired or was said in any situation that might be considered sensitive.

[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that's often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?" "Because they're real." "How do you know?" "The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Evidence exhausts the truth.