Grover Cleveland Quotes

A concept is stronger than a fact.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

The truth is undeniable. You tell somebody the truth, it's undeniable.

Things become clear when there is no escape.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact, and partly by conjecture, is like Nebuchadnezzar's image, whose feet were partly of iron, and partly of clay.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.