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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.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

William Arthur Ward

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

Kathleen Casey Theisen

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts

Thomas Sowell

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound through global warming.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

Hugh Prather

We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

Russell R McIntyre

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them

Tryon Edwards

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

Some people like to talk of intuition as a way of knowing truth; that gut reactions are as good as evidence based facts. Its a really silly way of thinking...

Derren Victor Brown

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H Fischer

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects.

Norman Cousins

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Brooks Adams

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fischer

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Robert D. Ballard

You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality off.

Frank Snepp

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error

Robert Owen

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing

Robert Green Ingersoll

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time.

Scott Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

Henry Brooks Adams

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

E. H. Carr

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