I never seen no shootin'. I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.
Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
I don't think I met an actual Mormon until college, and by that time, I was wary of them. I knew about the church through school and, secondhand, through non-Mormon friends.
You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'
There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.
I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.
I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.
I find I process the news by listening to someone else's report.
