Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

I always believe in the fact that there is something good in everything.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

Nearly everything possible has been done to spoil this game: the heavy financial interests;… the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the Press; … but the fact remains that it is not yet spoilt, and it has gone out and conquered the world.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience.

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience. The metaphysician reasons from theory to facts, the scientist reasons from facts to theory. The metaphysician explains the universe by himself, the scientist explains himself by the universe.

In the land of progressive Unicornia, science is only valuable if it is consistent with ideological dogma. Otherwise it is nothing more than bigoted hate facts.

Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.

Science is based on evidence, not politics. In science knowing is always preferable to not knowing.”37 But today in academia, progressive ideology trumps scientific facts.

Scientists aren’t responsible for the facts that are in nature. . . . If anyone should have a sense of sin, it’s God. He put the facts there.

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else’s opinion

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact

I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Since philosophy is a piece of human character, it merits a spot in the realm of endless facts.

The subject of limits is a significant inquiry of the Jewish individuals in light of the fact that the Jews are extraordinary specialists in intersection limits. They have a feeling of personality inside themselves that doesn’t allow them to cross limits with others.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

And I don’t want you thinking that my girlfriend is a bad person. She is an amazing woman, the fact that I only have seven stories about her in eight years, says a lot. You know, don’t get me wrong, five of them happened this year, but that’s still way below the bar, you know what I am saying.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There’s a world, you see which has people in it who believe a variety of different things.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

I just spent my whole life training and focused on one thing, I really don’t even think about after the fact! It’s like, oh yeah, I have to do something after!

there’s reason to believe neither account reflects the facts. But the authors of both gospels—whoever those authors really were—believed Jesus was the Savior, so He must’ve been born in Bethlehem, as the Old Testament predicts.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.

The probable fact is that we are descended not only from monkeys but from monks.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‘Wow, that movie or that show or whatever—turned out really well

Facts are not interesting to me.

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

The truths of religion are unprovable; the facts of science are unproved.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

We’ve been proud of the fact that we were known for our music first and it has been what makes us work harder.

Let us aim for victory in the spring. You in the factories, you in the fields, you in uniforms; you citizens of the world, let us work and fight towards that end. You, official Washington, and you, official London, let us make this our aim – victory in the spring.

Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man’s or a woman’s shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being’s day, week, or life.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.

There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe.

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys’ philosophies–these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond

The good man wins a victory and then stops; he will not go on to acts of violent winning, he boasteth not, he will not triumph, he shows no arrogance. He wins because he cannot choose. After his victory he will not be overbearing.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine

There are no shortcuts. Everything is reps, reps, reps.

And beauty is a form of genius — is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. You smile? Ah! when you have lost it you won’t smile

One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying, or else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts—the less you know the hotter you get.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

A fact, in science, is not a mere fact, but an instance.

We’re so fortunate here, away from the turmoil. We wouldn’t have to give a moment’s thought to all this suffering if it weren’t for the fact that we’re so worried about those we hold dear, whom we can no longer help.

Withholding anything short of the best service of which one is capable is costly business – a fact which many have learned too late.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

No pay, no fly, and no work, no pay

Young people and old people, too, are too timid about experimenting trying their little adventures, flying their own Atlantics. Step out! Try the job you are interested in! Use the talents which give you joy! There’s plenty of time

Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.

A theory which emphasizes individual control and responsibility denies a basic fact of human existence.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee, they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense

Facts speak plainer than words

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Education is not the learning of facts; it’s rather the training of the mind to think.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

We’re all just kids who grew up way too fast.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler

This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play

You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here

It is in the present and only in the present that you live

The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result. Conjectures are of great importance since they suggest useful lines of research.

Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled – to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must, therefore, be treated like a king.

That’s what people respect, the fact that I wasn’t a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, YOU are beautiful.

The hustles of the individuals in the Bronx are absolutely genuine.

Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her.

When you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

Money can run out but talent is forever.

The eye… the point where a person’s identity is concentrated.

No love can survive muteness.

Pain doesn’t listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind… I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Happiness, not in another place, but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Resist much, obey little.

All we can do in the face of that ineluctable defeat called life is to try to understand it.

You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

The only way to deal with this life is to find a way to laugh at it.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory.

The feeling of nostalgia is a feeling of home.

No, my friend, forget the lottery! Win or lose, it is the same, it is a kind of deadly game in which we can never guess the consequences.

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do, And he said , You never know what you can accomplish until you try.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

No individual can do it all on their own.

Messi is an incredible player but he can’t do everything alone. In football you need help and it can’t be done alone.

The Premier League is the best competition in the world, and it’s not easy to win a league with great teams like Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, and Arsenal as rivals.

I’ve never been afraid to fail.

Do not be afraid to ask for help.

There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

Choose people who lift you up.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

If you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list.

You don’t want to be with a boy who is too stupid to appreciate a smart young lady. There is no boy who is cute enough or interesting enough to stop you from getting your education.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house ,and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both

For me, being Mom in Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.

When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

I just save my money, man. I don’t even try to enjoy it like these other rappers; they having fun and they lit, but they gon’ be broke later on. I be savin’, I be chillin’. It feels good to know I got it, but it feel better to know I’ma keep it too.

Just do what works for you because there will always be someone who thinks differently.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

The only way you can fail is if you quit.

Don’t listen to them haters tryna fill your ears with salt.

Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.

I came too far to stop now. I can’t let a n*gg* get the best of me.