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.

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...

I’m more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives.

The aloo gobi is perhaps to North India what apple pie is to America. It is cheap and easy to make. Like most Indian dishes, you can make aloo gobi in as complex or rudimentary...

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable...

Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature...

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don’t push out figures when facts...

Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

The truth of the matter is that facts seldom prove the truth. Why? Because truth is inly found in a journey.

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

It is easier to align our opinions with facts, than it is to align facts with our opinions.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

We think there is a certainly a credible basis for this investigation by the tribunal given the facts that we have gathered.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

The Mexican government is demanding an investigation of the facts.

All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion.

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the...

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.

We’ve got facts,” they say. But facts aren’t everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!

You ain’t never going to get rich that way, Johnson. And there’s money in that dick. Lots of money.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

I’m giving the facts. They (the monitors) left at 9:20 a.m., and the Israelis came in at 9:30 a.m. How can we explain that?

Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things to memory when...

until we get all the facts on the table.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It...