William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.
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You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
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The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.
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We are not discussing alternatives because we are hopeful and confident we are going to get approval.
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Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
