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Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

The courage to admit when you're wrong doesn't show weakness. It shows your strength. Your integrity speaks volumes about you as a person.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.