#facts

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. ↗

— Barack Obama

#argument #because #clearly #country #day

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#because #between #cruel #facts #foes

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#conceal #diplomats #facts #make #their

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#came #courage #facts #found #had

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#believe #blood #brothers #closed #existence

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#easier #facts #fit #ignore #preconceptions

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject. ↗

— Jon Wynne-Tyson

#determined #effectiveness #facts #memory #number

Seek truth from facts. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#seek #truth

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ↗