William James Quotes

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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• The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Law
  • Facts
  • Jury

• 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
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Exercise
  • Facts
  • Patience

• 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.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Different
  • Know
  • Facts

• To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Facts
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Problems
  • Facts
  • Solution

• I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Facts
  • Learned
  • Opinions

• 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
  • True
  • Reality
  • Facts

• Facts are many, but the truth is one.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Facts
  • Truth Is

• 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.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Facts
  • Intelligence
  • Debate

• The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • True
  • Always
  • Facts

• All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Best
  • Facts

• 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.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Learn
  • Animal
  • Facts

• 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
  • Man
  • Facts
  • Thinks

• Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Cannot

• People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Important
  • Facts

• Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Facts
  • Errors
  • Overthrow

• My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Power
  • Opinion
  • Habit

• Science is not the mere collection of facts, which are infinitely numerous and mostly uninteresting, but the attempt by the human mind to order these facts into satisfying patterns.

  

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Facts

• Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Youth
  • Glory
  • Bitter

• As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Laughter
  • Times
  • Delights

• I did not suggest that Iran is a democracy; just the opposite. I talked about it being a repressive theocracy. What I think is indisputable is that even within this repressive regime, the political leaders there - including the Supreme Leader - are sensitive to the concerns of the population within bounds.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Political
  • Democracy

• Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

  

  William James
  • Facts