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.

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...

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...