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...

Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the Jesus of the Gospels…God stops being the Lord of righteous deed and becomes...

An enthusiastic philosopher, of whose name we are not informed, had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other, and was not a little proud of it. “But the facts, my dear fellow,”...

Those are facts and there has been no analysis done on any of this.

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.

If you’re searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you’ll be able to see the real truth.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of...

There’s no destiny; you just decide where you end.

He’s wrong on the facts, and we’re not going to respond to cheap and feckless political attacks.

The facts are that the 911 [emergency response] system will be up and operational this Wednesday, … American Morning.

All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though...

He’s not explaining all the facts to the residents. He’s just pandering to a certain group in town.

Ive allways wondered what the 4 letters in the word LIFE stands for. I know understand that it stands for: Little Interesting Facts Everyday.

A movie that gets closer to the life’s reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.

We’re filled with all sorts of facts about things that have happened in our lives, and there’s no seeming end to it.

Luz’s manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn’t that she made things up, strictly speaking–only that facts were merely a point of departure for...

The facts and the science just don’t support that.

The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification—judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind—essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific...

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned...

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that...

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The agnostic does not simply say, “l do not know.” He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of...

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.