Max Facts Quotes & Sayings

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

I am scared almost all the time. But I never tell anyone. I can't afford to. I have to go on pretending I'm this confident person, because if I don't, if I'm quiet, I become invisible. — Marcus Sedgwick

We have lived as slaves most of our lives. We do not know how to make choices — Brian Godawa

A pagan sins less than a baptised renegade. — Thomas Watson

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does. — W. H. Auden

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it. — Max Eastman

You can change. You can 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.' — Russell M. Nelson

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness. — Emo Philips

Black hair hung in his eyes as he turned her chin to taste her mouth. "At least I didn't try to eat her, lost lamb. — Addison Cain

Pieces don't fit. Wine runs out. Water bottles burst. These are facts of life. But Jesus responds with this invitation: "Bring your problems to me. — Max Lucado

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. — Max Gluckman

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.' — Gwendoline Christie

He'd kept his figure despite being past his first youth. Pretty good for nearly forty.
Who was she fooling? She knew quite well that he was thirty-five and a half, exactly five years older than she. Their birthdays were two days apart. It was absurd the way trivial facts lingered in the memory, facts as unimportant as what she had for dinner on Tuesday. Except that she couldn't remember last week's menu and she was annoyingly aware of Max Quinton's preference for lamb over beef, for apple tart over syllabub. He preferred Shakespeare to the modern poets, the country to the town. — Miranda Neville

The more these artificial renaissances strive to keep intact the letter of the original doctrines, the more they distort the original meaning, for truth is forged in an evolution of changing and conflicting ideas. Thought is faithful to itself largely through being ready to contradict itself, while preserving, as inherent elements of truth, the memory of the processes by which it was reached. The task of critical reflection is not merely to understand the various facts in their historical development but also to see through the notion of fact itself, in its development and therefore in its relativity. — Max Horkheimer

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. — Max Eastman

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side. — Max Lucado

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people's brains for some reason, that just amused them. Puns, and exaggerations, and things that were true and not at the same time. — Max Barry

Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts. — Max Weber

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts. — Max Brooks

Winston Churchill wrote afterwards: 'No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening. The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions, the number of unknown and unknowable facts made the first collision a drama never surpassed. Nor was there any other period in the War when the general battle was waged on so great a scale, when the slaughter was so swift or the stakes so high. Moreover, in the beginning, our faculties of wonder, horror, or excitement had not been cauterized and deadened by the furnace fires of years. — Max Hastings

Little known Max fact: I invented the word TWIRGIN (a Twitter virgin). — Max Cummings

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do. — Max Brooks

There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn't see them. He sees you better than you see yourself. — Max Lucado

I feel that my main responsibility as a teacher isn't to convey facts, but to rekindle that lost enthusiasm for asking questions. — Max Tegmark

... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases. — Max Weber

A princess of her people has no business sitting off to the side while her people are in danger. — Richelle Mead

The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the historical character of the perceiving organ. Both are not simply natural; they are shaped by human activity, and yet the individual perceives himself as receptive and passive in the act of perception. — Max Horkheimer

What counted was not the facts but the fears. — Max Lerner

The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth. — Max Planck

Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer. — Andrew Vachss

Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free. — Jim Crace

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. — Max Weber