Max Lerner Quotes
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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In fact, Bernard Leach was several generations removed from us. At that time we were there, I think Alix MacKenzie and I were 26 and 28, and Leach was about 63, and we thought he was a very old man. I used to always want to help him up the stairs in the house for fear he'd fall. Actually, he was in excellent condition and lived to be much, much older than we ever expected.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.
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What counted was not the facts but the fears.
