Best 4898 quotes in «facts quotes» category

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

My head is filled with so much crap, or facts that I find important, but that some others don't.

My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

My life is so much better, it's so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.

My manager makes fun of me for the fact that I avoid the money, I’m allergic to money...

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh

My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills.

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.

My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

My refrigerator is powerful. In fact, it has a direct link to my overall well-being.

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.

My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries we are competing for - the industries of the future - are all based on brainpower.

Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.

Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.

Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.