Best 4898 quotes in «facts quotes» category

Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions.

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'.

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.

Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently, this executive order is a singularly ineffective - in legal parlance, it would be called under-inclusive - form of a Muslim ban.

My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts...The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.

My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text him or call him or even Skype with him is so wonderful.

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. Im drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids - that's what success is to me.

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.

My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the fact that I don't yet know where it will take me.

My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.

My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

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