William Manchester Quotes
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
Samuel Chase -
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 will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter -
Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
Talcott Parsons -
I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
Yair Lapid
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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.
Abraham Robinson -
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.
Imre Lakatos -
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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 -
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 -
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
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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.
Iain McGilchrist -
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 -
Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
Yair Lapid -
People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
Rachel Maddow -
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 -
Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.
Felipe VI of Spain
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Epictetus -
At DuPont, I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me.
Stephanie Kwolek -
The sum of a million facts is not the truth.
William Manchester