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Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?


Thomas Henry Huxley

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WILLIAM PITT I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would.
BUDDY ALLEN They see you and me: they know my pain's a fact, my revenge is empty breath.
SOPHOCLES I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the...
ALEX CAMPBELL I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry F...
PETER FONDA Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my...
TAYLOR SWIFT Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours...
JAMES AGATE Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I hid myself behind Baba. It was like being in the shadow. Shadows are empty places in things. The c...
BILAL TANWEER Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstei...
LEON URIS Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favo...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequ...
ALAFAIR BURKE I don't know what to expect. I don't know many of their names. But the fact that they've come this f...
ICHIRO SUZUKI Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember...
KARL PEARSON I don't know off hand. Let me ask Thomas and Scalia what they think.
HARRIET MIERS I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approva...
AGNETHA FALTSKOG I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.
ROY M. COHN In the past, I know a lot of people have been elected without any experience in law enforcement. Alt...
GREG WARD As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anythi...
ACE FREHLEY My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.
CASEY JAMES I think it's well spent money on their case, and I have a law firm with some very, very talented law...
BRIAN CROWE My hands are in his hair and his arms wrap around my waist tighter. I know what Henry does to me. I�...
LAUREN HAMMOND I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. ...
AYN RAND I don't know, where i am going
But i know, i am on my way
I don't know, what i am doing AAMIR SARFRAZ (AAMIR RAJPUT KHAN) I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own app...
AGNETHA FALTSKOG I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
FRIDA KAHLO The timing of this is a surprise more than the fact that the change occurred. I sensed that somethin...
LEE HUENECKE He died of cancer on Christmas Eve when I was in my second year of law school. I know what that pain...
CHARLES DUNCAN You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right -...
S. T. JOSHI Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that...
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER We don't know what to do. This is my brother, but on the other hand, they are my family, too. I don'...
AMJAD ALI No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some p...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Why is there so much problem just to know one’s own Soul? The Soul resides in one’s own abode (b...
DADA BHAGWAN Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I h...
ANNE FRANK I know for a fact my house is gone.
JAMES O'BYRNE If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to...
ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not ...
CHARLES SANDERS PIERCE I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched f...
GEN WILLIAM C. WESTMORELAND Roper:So now youd give the Devil benefit of law!Sir Thomas More:Yes. What would you do? Cut a great ...
ROBERT BOLT Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong....
ANNE FRANK I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
DAN MARINO I know him a little bit, and he seemed like a calm, level-headed kid. I was kind of surprised when I...
BRANDON MCCARTHY I know this is insane, but I somehow wish I had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really ...
ART SPIEGELMAN I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
SOCRATES I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
DIOGENES I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance
DIOGENES I hate and love - wherefore I cannot tell, but by my tortures know the fact too well
CATULLUS I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue abo...
JAMES AGATE I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don&...
OLLY MURS I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But...
LAURA BENANTI I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.
G-EAZY Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; i...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE I know that's not necessarily his style, but there comes a time when he has to save his own ass with...
JEFF GARCIA I wasn't satisfied. I was throwing winning throws, but I scratched the winning throws. It just didn'...
JIOVANNA MARTINEZ I don't know what I'm proudest of. The fact that my kids still talk to me.
ALAN ARKIN Life is always uncertain. No one knows what's in there. But now my life is everywhere, I would just ...
HAPPY POSITIVITY BLANKLY AHEAD My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in ...
AMY ADAMS This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
BILL GINSBURG Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and...
NAOMI ALDERMAN The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the mo...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN I call it cruel and maybe the root of all crueltyto know what occurs but not recognize the fact.
WILLIAM STAFFORD I know this is not good news, but it's the law and the state Department of Education will not give u...
DON HAMILTON I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. M...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Humility is not an empty word. When I ask for it, it is because I know it is the path to success.
OLASOT I don't mind dieing for humans to save humans, especially when I know I will resurrect. But as of me...
EPHDAN What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the nex...
CHRISTOPHER LEE Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there...
JOHN GREEN Thomas Edison’s last words were: “It’s very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where ther...
JOHN GREEN Thomas Edison’s last words were: “It’s very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where ther...
JOHN GREEN So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison's last words were: "It's very beauti...
JOHN GREEN So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison’s last words were: “It’s very ...
JOHN GREEN The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on t...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN "The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on ...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN We know no fear. It was cut from our souls at birth. We can feel it only as an absence, as an empty ...
JOHN FRENCH Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is...
JOHN GREEN Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that th...
CARLY FIORINA And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know wh...
MARGARET SPELLINGS I know that no one is my judge. I live according to my own conscience and value discernment which is...
MISHI MCCOY I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
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LOVIE SMITH Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I ...
GLORIA PITZER He turned and looked at Henry. “Did you always know that you would write all these books?” “I ...
COLM TóIBíN I think I've learned a lot in my career here. I'm kind of at a point now where I know what's it like...
BRETT BASANEZ People that know me know I'm very good about doing my own thing and minding my own business.
JILLIAN MICHAELS I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.
ROY BEAN I know my strengths, my qualities, and I know what I am worth,
WILLIAM GALLAS When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an imp...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM I enjoy the love I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is real for me and ...
AAMIR KHAN But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
AMELIA BARR This is what I know, this is what I work for my whole life. I don't want it to be taken away.
JIRI FISCHER I don't know how it happened, and I don't know why, but this-- what she and I have-- it's solid. You...
ELLA FRANK All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
WILL ROGERS I don't know what went wrong. Because I look at this evidence and this is an inconceivable verdict t...
BARRY SCHECK Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other,That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.
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THOMAS HUXLEY The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part...
THOMAS HUXLEY I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he...
THOMAS HUXLEY Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
THOMAS HUXLEY Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and v...
THOMAS HUXLEY I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which form...
THOMAS HUXLEY Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow hu...
THOMAS HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
THOMAS HUXLEY Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had...
THOMAS HUXLEY I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning ...
THOMAS HUXLEY Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
THOMAS HUXLEY The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
THOMAS HUXLEY My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harm...
THOMAS HUXLEY Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
THOMAS HUXLEY The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is ...
THOMAS HUXLEY The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The mode...
THOMAS HUXLEY The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but ...
THOMAS HUXLEY The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an il...
THOMAS HUXLEY Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
THOMAS HUXLEY I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spec...
THOMAS HUXLEY History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as supe...
THOMAS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
THOMAS HUXLEY If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is ...
THOMAS HUXLEY It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of makin...
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY