The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
Arab nation, Egypt, is not mentioned [in the Muslim Ban]? This is where facts are optional for the liberal media.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.
Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
People only believe what they discover for themselves. We need to have civil discussions, and look at what the facts and the truth are.
There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.
[Donald] Trump's establishing his bona fides on military preparedness. No histrionics, just the facts.
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
How is it appropriate for a judge ever to say that they will choose to see some facts and not others?
The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Professors who hold unpopular positions or state inconvenient facts are now considered psychologically toxic.
It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.
If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
All I can do is my talking on the track, and I believe that when they look at the facts, people can judge for themselves if it's good or bad.
I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
Sometimes people get upset when you tell the truth, when you share the facts as science dictates.
A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.
The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.
People are suspect because they believe your ideology blinds you to equal application of the law, and the facts.
Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.
I believe what matters are facts and behaviours in our daily life rather than formal gestures.
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.
When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts.
Political debates in the United States can be untethered from facts, but threats to life focus minds on reality.
Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.
With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.
No matter if you like it or not, you could hate Drake, he always says stuff that everybody can relate to. Facts.
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.
These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.
When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
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