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The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.

Still, 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.

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn't go to hell--in fact, I couldn't go to hell if I wanted to.

The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.

Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts.

They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don't address it these days, but it doesn't change the fact.

Welcome to prekindergarten! You will not die if you discover that there are more lines out there than just your own. In fact, you'll discover that you will have an advantage if you know more of them!

I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.

So, in effect, what I'm saying is that my research is very strongly pointing to the fact that the extraterrestrials are not coming, they're not going to invade, they've actually been controlling this planet, increasingly, for thousands of years.

In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.

A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.

The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner will ever presume to infer from it any single fact, and alter or add to the phenomena, in any single particular.

Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

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

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall survive any theoretical construction that has been or may hereafter be put upon them.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

We acted properly and with integrity in all Enron matters, ... We have not knowingly assisted Enron or any other company in misrepresenting facts about their financial condition.

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

I just think that your private life is private. What I do is obviously public, I get that. I get the fact that people are interested. I'm interested in a lot of people as well. I've just chosen to stay as private as possible.

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and its partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

...I enjoyed it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) .. in fact I'm all out...

That punt was higher than Marion Berry on a fact-finding tour of Cartagena.

A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.

The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they are classic scapegoats. Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of the transvestite.

In fact, the world needs more nerds.

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.

What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

The more I protest that I'm not Lemony Snicket, and that I'm Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

Dell Computers announced they're releasing a competitor for the iPad. Now it is, in fact, a great alternative for people who already have an iPad, but are fed up with it working all the time.

Facts and particulars annoy me,

To think is an act. To feel is a fact.

I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.