Best 4898 quotes in «facts quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Necessity is not an established fact, but 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.

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

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

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 forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.

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

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.

New facts often trigger new ideas

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.

'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.

Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?