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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.


Edith Hamilton

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Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
FELIX COHEN Generally, the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories
FELIX COHEN Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from...
THOMAS SOWELL Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced ...
THOMAS SOWELL It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to sui...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to sui...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twi...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...
EDITH WHARTON Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the we disbelieve we call theories.
FELIX COHEN I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins t...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Hamilton, the human word machine,
RON CHERNOW Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU Their fundamental difference was their judgment on human nature. Jefferson believed that people were...
HAL BIDLACK The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and th...
TAYLOR CALDWELL Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of gr...
IMRE LAKATOS Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for pol...
ANTONY BEEVOR Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the huma...
HARRISON FORD Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his di...
HEYWOOD BROUN Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and...
LUDWIG VON MISES I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies."
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A...
JEAN-BAPTISTE DUMAS The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we ...
NIKOLA TESLA Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. ...
RAY BRADBURY The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are ra...
FRANZ BOAS The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are ra...
FRANZ BOAS The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial o...
STEVEN PINKER As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
WILLIAM JAMES As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
KATHRINE SWITZER There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been d...
SIMON TRAVAGLIA Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at...
CLARENCE DAY JR. It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are mi...
ELLEN G. WHITE As an observer of human nature, let's just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more st...
SIMON ZINGERMAN You are a good counter...

T-Man (......You used the F word 31 times.......)
DEYTH BANGER Fisher Ames observed of Hamilton that the common people don’t want leaders “whom they see elevat...
RON CHERNOW The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical facult...
WILLIAM JAMES Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being h...
DALAI LAMA The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word....
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened ...
RYAN WHITE In response to a ridiculous statement by Edith: " I've gotta quote for you, Edith. --'A bird that al...
ARCHIE BUNKER There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained ...
ASA GRAY We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of ne...
HENRY MILLER We do not talk -- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of n...
HENRY MILLER My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to...
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JOHN GIBSON Human nature being what it is, they tried to go out the same way they came in ... That was the probl...
CHARLES HALL To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind.
"Char...
EDITH PATTOU Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human ...
TASLIMA NASRIN Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature gro...
ELLEN WILLIS There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and exp...
DENIS DIDEROT There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and e...
DENIS DIDEROT There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and e...
DENIS DIDEROT The very suggestion of plans to create some counter-blocs are wrong and counter-productive.
SERGEI YASTRZHEMBSKY Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture...
STEVEN PINKER Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
ORSON WELLES The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you...
BARROWS DUNHAM A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fool...
ANUJ SOMANY Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers...
ANUJ SOMANY Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To ki...
LIU XIAOBO The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explai...
WILLIAM WHEWELL The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explai...
WILLIAM WHEWELL I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E.M. FORSTER The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. FORSTER She would search for him.
In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
But...
EDITH PATTOU Mr. Gibbs: Curse you for breathin' ya slack-jawed idiot. Mother's love. Jack. You should know better...
JACK SPARROW The European Commission overreached itself in the G.E.-Honeywell case. It pushed theories like the '...
ALEC BURNSIDE Edith, stifle yourself!
NORMAN LEAR We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI I was working my way into Edith Head's department.
GRACE VILLARREAL Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
ORSON WELLES Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same tim...
KENNETH EADE The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge ...
DEREK BOK I wish to go more and more outside to be among the problems of nature and problems of human beings i...
JOSEPH BEUYS Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does...
DONNA LEON to replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings a...
DISCOVERY INSTITUTE Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human ...
LOU ANN WALKER Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR The rights of human nature are deeply wounded by this infamous practice of slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perp...
BRIAN E. MOORE The ‘share’ of his company is like a human nature, as soon as one thinks that it cannot go furth...
DR HITESH C SHETH The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one qualit...
OSCAR WILDE Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...
ROBINSON JEFFERS Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...
ROBINSON JEFFERS Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.
BRANDON SANDERSON As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath th...
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS Edith was at the forefront of the move to modernist design that influenced architecture and furnitur...
BILL STERN The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules abo...
FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.�...
JOHN OWEN Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human...
LOU ANN WALKER I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
LAURA BRANIGAN I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as wor...
CAROLYN WELLS Whatever happens right now, it has to happen.
JAYSON ENGAY REPROBATION, n. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of repro...
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EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ...
EDITH SITWELL In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce...
EDITH WIDDER Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M...
EDITH HEAD I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh...
EDITH WIDDER Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'...
EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON