We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
In his life Christ is an example showingus how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
The fatal futility of Fact.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame it's counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium.
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
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