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Facts, Words

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

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Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

- Jane Austen

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

- Paul Anka

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

- David Douglass

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

- James Newman

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words."

- Charles Moore

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

- Herbert Kaufman