Part of what you must learn is how to handle mistakes and new facts that change the odds. Life, in part, is like a poker game, wherein you have to learn to quit sometimes when...

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

Don’t get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn’t even exist in the first place.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we...

Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

What I’d like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist–if any exists–of ‘A Scientific Man and the Bible’. By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How...

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and...

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back...

It’s a persons ego that leads them away. So I should say, let your mind be open to those things that affects your ego. Learn how to accept your mistakes and learn how to understand...

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have...

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our...

He wasn’t exactly hostile to facts, but he was apathetic about them

Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that…and got control of herself with an visible effort. She took three deep breaths, each longer than the...

Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact… always supersedes belief.

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists,...

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

Now I have to say I’m a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it’s...

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk… A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery...

Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.

Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

Don’t confuse facts with reality.

This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.

A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that’s what pushes me, these days – but as someone said the other say. ‘Trace, you’re going to have to face facts. You and...

I always wondered what the four letters in LIFE stand for. I now understand that they stand for: Little Interesting Facts Every day.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look...

Seek truth from facts.

It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual’s experiential truths – the extreme of the former is left feeling in...

In every matter we make our decisions based on the facts and the law.

I am a fact factory. I make things you can’t make up.

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with regard to the sources of our knowledge of human nature. Psychology, ethnology, anthropology,...

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how...

L’homme n’est pas un cercle à un seul centre ; c’est une ellipse à deux foyers. Les faits sont l’un, les idées sont l’autre.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard...

I’m not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making – just the facts.

Facts and values are entangled in science. It’s not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility...

Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven’t lived with them yet.

We often hear that sanctions are hurting the Iraqi people, but an objective analysis of the facts reveals that Iraq has access to international markets and the money to buy food, but Saddam will not...

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories...

Facts are only facts until something better comes along.

We need more love, to supersede hatred, —We need more strength, to resist our weaknesses, —We need more inspiration, to lighten up our inner mind. —We need more learning, to erase our ignorance, —We need...

To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows....

Every day that we read the news we have the possibility of being confronted with a fact about our world that is wildly different from what we thought we knew.

Good days came when the bad days gone.

I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.