Frances Wright Quotes
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
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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 -
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 -
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
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
Yair Lapid -
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 -
Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.
Abigail Johnson -
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
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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.
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 -
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
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Albert Einstein -
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.
Ellen Ullman -
Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
Frances McDormand -
I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.
Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons -
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