Thomas Sowell Quotes
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.Thomas Sowell
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
Ovid -
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson -
I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
Mahesh Babu -
It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.
Narendra Modi -
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.
Nancy Cartwright -
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore -
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
Finley Peter Dunne -
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
Barbara Jordan -
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Albert Einstein -
Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Nobody should be wearing a scrunchie anymore. I feel angry. That is my tipping point.
Andrea Barber -
I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
Andy Rooney -
Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
P. J. Plauger -
Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.
Brian Tracy -
Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
Anthony Hope -
This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.
Joanne Rowling
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We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.
Ban Ki-moon -
Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.
Scott Cook -
Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
Idries Shah -
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Thomas Sowell