Facts Quotes - Page 8

• Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Thinking, Illusion

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• Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Practice, Conscious

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• You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love Yourself, Yoga, Thinking

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• The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of humility.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Different

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• None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Acceptance, Self

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• But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Abuse, Ignorant

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• Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, People, Feelings

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• The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Father, Nice

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• We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.

  Paul Simon

  Jobs, Work, Believe

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• But the plain fact of the matter is that, for any person to successfully lead others, he or she must deal with reality and be ready to accept the fact that leadership , at times, can bring out the worst in us. And understanding, as well as coming to grips with the darker side of your personality, is key to dealing with real-life situations.

  Donald T. Phillips

  Motivational, Real, Keys

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• 'Type one' error is thinking that something special is happening when nothing special really is happening. 'Type two' error is thinking that nothing special is happening, when in fact something rare or infrequent is happening.'

  Marcello Truzzi

  Thinking, Two, Errors

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• A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Science, Men

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• My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

  Max Born

  Art, Advice, Secret

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• We're deep into the holiday gift-giving season, as you can tell from the fact that everywhere you look, you see jolly old St. Nick urging you to purchase things, to the point where you want to slug him right in his bowl full of jelly.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Holiday, Giving

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• You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.

  Dave Barry

  Summer, Humorous, Drinking

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Talking, Psychics, Development

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• A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere and that future won't happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Lines, Probability

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• It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals.

  John Dewey

  Spring, Fall, Sacrifice

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.154, SIU Press

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• If the world attacks and you slide off track, remember one fact, I got your back.

  Will Smith

  Friendship, Track, World

  Song: JUST THE TWO OF US Album 'Big Willie Style', Album: Greatest Hits, 1997

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• I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. In fact, I truly believe that a lot of people who do great things, many of them have come from harder backgrounds.

  Sara McMann

  Believe, Doors, Order

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• The fact that I get to live a life of passion where I'm doing only things that I love in this world and help people along the way. Life's good. I always remind myself of that.

  Urijah Faber

  Passion, Mma, People

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• Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.

  Rashad Evans

  Running, Fighting, Hard Times

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• The fact of the matter is, if you're not putting out stuff that people are feeling, then your record label doesn't mean a goddamn thing.

  El-P

  Mean, People, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for behaving in an unkind manner towards others. There's never any excuse for not being kind and it's always better to be kind even if it seems pointless and that in fact is the highest wisdom - being kind. It sounds like a very noble, ethereal, simplistic idea but it's true.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Excuse You, Ideas, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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