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You know nothing for sure..except the fact that you know nothing for sure. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

I will never apologize for the United States of America - - I don't care what the facts are. (Quote by - George Bush)

The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its cou. (Quote by - Larry Bird)

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. (Quote by - Ivan Pavlov)

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. (Quote by - Henri Poincar)

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. (Quote by - David P. Gardner)

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fiction parts should be printed in red ink, the fact parts in black ink. (Quote by - Catherine Drinker Bowen)

Generally, the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. (Quote by - Felix Cohen)

You must look at the facts because they look at you. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own. (Quote by - Claude Levi- Strauss)

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself. (Quote by - Joan Sutherland)

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. (Quote by - Clarence Day)

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. (Quote by - Willa Sibert Cather)

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. (Quote by - Max Eastman)

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

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. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

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. (Quote by - Al Gore)

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids. (Quote by - Elizabeth Taylor)

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