Best 4898 quotes in «facts quotes» category

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.

On previous occasions when God incarnated on earth, the bliss of recognising Him in the incarnation was vouchsafed only after the physical embodiment had left the world, in spite of plenty of evidences of His Grace. But, ponder a moment on this Sathya Sai Manifestation; in this age of rampant materialism, aggressive disbelief and irreverence, what is it that brings to It the adoration of millions from all over the world? You will be convinced that the basic reason for this is the fact that this is the Supra-worldly Divinity in Human Form.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature, art and religion.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

Our Jewishness is not a creed, it is ourself, our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the surest evidence of your lack of seriousness in religion is the fact that your religions are not national, that you are not compromised and dedicated, en masse, to the faith.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.

Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.

Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.

Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.

Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

Partners like the United States and Germany must always discuss all issues, including these questions. I welcome the fact that a discussion over legitimate methods of questioning and interrogation is taking place in both Germany and the United States.

Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.