If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in… — Charles L. Allen Copy Share Image
Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all.… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I think people often miss the fact that things often start in a swashbuckling like low cost just get it done kind… — Jonah Peretti Copy Share Image
Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Rummy is the best-known of all card games played in the United States. Its popularity is due partly to the fact that… — Albert H. Morehead Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If you come across something good, you should hold on and never let it go. Life offers you a thousand chances, all… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
hat's just a fact of life. So I've taken music into my life and it's gotten into my blood to the point… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
There's no need to be fearful when another person succeeds. In fact, joining forces and supporting fellow teachers (or co-workers) you believe… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians. — Star Parker Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done… — John Tenniel Copy Share Image
But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I was wrong about [Jack] Keane. He is the exception that proves the rule. I was certainly right about the fact that… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
COz I'm bored like an empty cup And I wanna run to your side Like you are my favorite chocolate I'm craving… — Myself Copy Share Image
In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image