#fact

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. ↗

— Robert Peel

#few #least #me #politics #seem

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#fact #foundation #good #logic #possible

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. ↗

— Westbrook Pegler

#always #friendships #given #greater #hates

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#belief #facts #finding #harmony #inquiring

I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#about #audition #because #coach #department

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens. ↗

— David Petraeus

#any #back #citizens #come #fact

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#did #fact #felt #first #got

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#fact #granted #i #kind #olympic

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#being #comes #continue #doing #fact

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight