Best 4898 quotes in «facts quotes» category

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.

Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.

Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.

Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

Rely on facts, figures, principles of equality and fairness.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust.

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.

Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

Rummy is the best-known of all card games played in the United States. Its popularity is due partly to the fact that it is so simple. Any person with a knowledge of the basic game can easily learn any form of it.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too.

Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Science is something that you have facts. They can be tested. They can be checked. Heterosexual AIDS, another one.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.