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...

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...

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

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.

It’s extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on what other people think. This is where lies begin to build and develop...

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met...

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely...

There is no fact which is not at least part fiction.

It’s an issue that we take very seriously, and the facts surrounding the Shi Tao case are very distressing to us.

Anything we do now, before the WTO meeting, could confuse the facts and we’d be creating an impediment to the WTO,

We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else.

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to facts as they occur, but with the eye of reason...

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of...

[You were watching] Battle of the Network Stars, … The Facts of Life.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Confidence is something you feel before you truly understand the situation

Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut...

H.R. 354 would effectively allow facts to become private property, simply through their inclusion in an electronic database. Ominously, many collections of public records, maintained by companies on contracts to governments, would become property of...

Facts are a strange thing . . . when you know the facts to be true, they turn you into a revolutionary.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

The federal government has done what was in its power to investigate and find the facts, identify those responsible and open the way for the application of justice.

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We’ve got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I’ve got to tell you the facts.

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

I’m not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

I’m not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called ”scientific” mind. People who mistake facts for ideas...

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that...

Ive tried and tried and now I give up. I refuse to be the perfect friend to people that cant treat me with the same respect.

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In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do this? He may know the totality of facts constituting the world; call this...

Là où il n’y a pas de réflexion théorique, la science n’est plus qu’une collection d’archives

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The facts speak for themselves.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

New Rule: America must stop bragging it’s the greatest country on earth, and start acting like it. I know this is uncomfortable for the “faith over facts” crowd, but the greatness of a country can,...

Lord Peter Wimsey: Facts, Bunter, must have facts. When I was a small boy, I always hated facts. Thought they were nasty, hard things, all nobs. Mervyn Bunter: Yes, my lord. My old mother always...

You slowly learn what’s good and what’s bad. I really started to stay away from using obscure facts that I thought other people would know. There are things you know that no one else in...

To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses...

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he’s nothing if he doesn’t make out a case.

Words have to make sense; facts don’t. That life makes no sense is the most beautiful fact of all.

The facts surrounding the Shi Tao case are very distressing to Yahoo. We learned the depressing facts on the case through the press.

It was very much Carol’s style: Here are the facts. Let’s get it done.

I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but...