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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Myself
People
Facts
Like
Votes
Make
Make Up
Makes
Opinions
Up
Any
Difference
Little
Body
Reasoning
Suit
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell
Religion
You
Trouble
Own
Every
Way
One-Way
Stuck
Facts
True
Another
Understood
Metaphors
Gets
Them
Then
Interpreting
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Important
Universe
Those
More
Both
Facts
Part
Perhaps
Than
Us
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
Thomas Sowell
Hope
Will
Gun
Gun Control
Whatever
Control
Thinking
Slightest
No Hope
Facts
Make
Advocate
Dent
Any
Lack
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin
Property
Rich
Oneself
Divided
Facts
Division
Abstract
Between
Antagonism
Owners
Poor
Mankind
Exploited
Means
Fundamental
Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.
Sean Covey
People
Judge
Too
Other
Way
All The Facts
Seeing
Having
Point
Point Of View
Facts
Without
Understand
Often
Different
Us
Act
View
Help
Why
Things
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Truth
Hate
Rumors
Spies
Facts
Pick
Come
Print
Camp
Up
Regard
Which
Them
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
Afrika Bambaataa
Positive
Work
Love
Wisdom
God
Faith
Mathematics
Freedom
Justice
Peace
Science
Equality
Allah
Negative
Understanding
Nation
Unity
Having
Having Fun
Through
Facts
Overcoming
Call
Him
Wonders
Jah
Acknowledge
Whether
Stands
Fun
Jehovah
Universal
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold H. Glasow
Life
Giving
Bath
Teenager
Telling
Facts
Like
Fish
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Will
Facts
Disappear
Likes
Account
Your
Facts are stubborn things.
Ronald Reagan
Stubborn
Facts
Things
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis Diderot
Nature
Knowledge
Result
Reflection
Three
Facts
Observation
Combination
Principal
Experimentation
Them
Acquiring
Means
Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs
Sometimes
All The Facts
Paranoia
Having
Facts
Just
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.
Richard Dawkins
Life
Eyes
Natural
Physics
Simple
Build
Chemistry
Trees
Extraordinary
Constantly
Fact
Selection
Take
Facts
Open
Powerful
How
Redwood
Existence
Up
Very
Human
Just
Process
Which
Human Existence
Them
Natural Selection
Wide
Humans
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob Marley
Music
Me
Fool
Will
Say
Facts
Know
Go
Forever
Maybe
I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
Erma Bombeck
Mind
Will
About
Only
Computer
Take
Facts
Like
Overload
Go
Brain
Lot
Up
Blow
Human
Then
Human Mind
Theory
Many
Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
P. J. O'Rourke
People
Made
Some People
Mindless
Minds
Some
About
Facts
Opinions
Proven
Up
Theories
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell
Good
Good And Evil
World
Achieve
Evil
Own
Medium
Those
Distorting
Seek
More
Only
Through
Facts
Know
Likely
Than
Forget
View
Who
Desires
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
Charles Darwin
Mind
Free
Every
Steadily
Give
Facts
Hypothesis
Soon
Opposed
However
Subject
Up
Any
Cannot
Forming
Much
Shown
Keep
Resist
Beloved
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
Finley Peter Dunne
Good
Man
Alcohol
Good Opinion
Facts
He
Himself
Opinion
Undisturbed
Necessary
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Thomas Sowell
Guard
Ourselves
Facts
Check
Least
Very
Flatter
Against
Us
Should
Beliefs
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke
Food
Mind
Facts
Body
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
Ivan Pavlov
Try
Become
Penetrate
Recorder
Mystery
Facts
Mere
Origin
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Thomas Sowell
Vision
Will
Mistakes
Pay
Pay Attention
Those
Corrected
Facts
Attention
Dogmatism
Who
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James
Nature
Power
Crushed
Human Nature
Alcohol
Cold
Earth
Criticisms
Unquestionably
Mystical
Facts
Faculties
Over
Hour
Dry
Due
Stimulate
Human
Sober
Sway
Mankind
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin
Science
Progress
Long
Every
Evidence
Pleasure
Some
Facts
Takes
Supported
Highly
False
Proving
Salutary
Often
Endure
Little
Views
Harm
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