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...

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...

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.

The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions had been dominated by the discredited Freudian fantasy that sexual abuse...

Imagine a skilled botanist accompanied by someone like myself who is largely ignorant of botany taking part in a field trip into the Australian bush, with the objective of collecting observable facts about the native...

Kujua ukweli juu ya uraibu wa madawa ya kulevya kunaweza kumsaidia mtu kujua madhara ya madawa ya kulevya.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.

Consequences are part of one’s life. You can’t run away from them, but simply face them.

I think they have purposely not looked at facts they should have looked at to come to a balanced and accurate conclusion.

facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.

As Karl Marx once noted: ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.’ William Jennings...

Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

knowledge” of angels, and he devoted far more of his massive Summa Theologica to them than to physics.

I want to see some facts.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man’s part in the real battle of life.

A man’s death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally...

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

There’s various scenarios and interpretations about that urgency. I think first we have to get the facts. There are too many interpretations of the facts, and those scenarios could change based on the variables incorporated...

presence … reminds us of the important facts, lest they be forgotten — the virtues of faith and the absolute need for forgiveness of one’s enemies.

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don’t taste as good as most other things do.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson...

There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind’s desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he...

Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events don’t conform to our view of reality, we call them...

Scientists are those who change facts

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

power of facing unpleasant facts.” True adulthood begins with doing just that, with renouncing comforting fables. There is something liberating in recognizing ourselves as mammals with some fourscore years (if we’re lucky) to make the...

The facts are always less than what really happened.

The strong belief can make things out of imagination.But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.

Knowledge is the facts and information accumulated through researching, observing or experience; Wisdom is the ability to choose certain aspects of knowledge acquired to be true, right and applicable to your life and society. Do...

For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery, many absurd and unjust laws, and thousands...

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller – some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events...

It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered to be the observable facts!

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances,...

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The truth is more important than the facts.

The facts are 82 percent of our shareowners also deserve a vote,

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe’s world.

Intelligence is restricted. It can deal only with facts discoverable by the senses and experiences related to these. It can act only in the area of the visible, the viable.

Dreams come true for sure…thats it, no other facts or philosophy…they may take a life time of yrs or somebody else but they are there in your heart or in your mind to change into...