To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
My pleasure in reading is not necessarily the witnessing of something new, but of something familiar which I haven't seen described.
A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probably there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.
My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.
Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
