Facts Quotes
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I will never apologize for the United States of America - - I don't care what the facts are. (Quote by - George Bush)
The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its cou. (Quote by - Larry Bird)
While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. (Quote by - Ivan Pavlov)
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. (Quote by - Henri Poincar)
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
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. (Quote by - David P. Gardner)
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fiction parts should be printed in red ink, the fact parts in black ink. (Quote by - Catherine Drinker Bowen)
Generally, the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. (Quote by - Felix Cohen)
You must look at the facts because they look at you. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own. (Quote by - Claude Levi- Strauss)
You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself. (Quote by - Joan Sutherland)
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. (Quote by - Clarence Day)
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. (Quote by - Willa Sibert Cather)
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. (Quote by - Max Eastman)
We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. (Quote by - Al Gore)
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids. (Quote by - Elizabeth Taylor)
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Trust your hunches.. Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. (Quote by - Dr. Joyce Brothers)
We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. (Quote by - F. Marion Smith)
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think. (Quote by - Robert M. Hutchins)
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Dear me, Watson, is it possible that you have not penetrated the fact that the case hangs upon the missing dumb-bell?. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.)
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world. (Quote by - Charles Hodge)
School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts. (Quote by - Ivan Pavlov)
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts.. How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert".. you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything. (Quote by - Peter McWilliams)
Genet was an actor in the play of his life, putting on masks, rearranging facts to suit his purpose and clouding himself in mystique. (Quote by - Mel Gussow)
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution. (Quote by - Theodosius Dobzhansky)
I really comprehend the fact that some of what I have to say sounds a little weird. But the more and more I purge myself of the stuff that had my focus so turned away from God, the more I shred myself, the more I have a greater connection to God. And what I know now that I didn't know then is that's why I'm here. (Quote by - Stephen Baldwin)
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. (Quote by - Sam Levenson)
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
We are recorders and reporters of the facts- not judges of the behavior we describe. (Quote by - Alfred C. Kinsey)
We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully. (Quote by - Billy Graham)
History is only a confused heap of facts. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
The senses collect the surface facts of matter.. It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The truth is more important than the facts. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world- historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it. (Quote by - Barbara Walters)
Facts are the air of the scientists. Without them you never can fly. (Quote by - Ivan Pavlov)
There's a Genius in all of us. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage. (Quote by - Katharine Graham)
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it. (Quote by - Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor)
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!. (Quote by - Courtney Love)
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. (Quote by - Alec Bourne)
I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!. (Quote by - Sally Field)
But facts are facts and flinch not. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno. (Quote by - David Letterman)
We are a fact- gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody. (Quote by - J. Edgar Hoover)
I'm sure there's no way to escape the fact that I was heavily influenced by him. I was only around his music and him most of the early part of my life. It's impossible not to have been inspired or influenced. (Quote by - Lisa Marie Presley)
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. (Quote by - R. D. Laing)
I don't know all the facts o- n Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans. (Quote by - Stephen Harper)
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul- satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. (Quote by - Robert Keith Leavitt)
Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the back. (Quote by - Harold Bowden)
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. (Quote by - Elsa Schiaparelli)
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more. (Quote by - Barry Humphries)
In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm. (Quote by - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara)
The fact that he is in pain guarantees that he will get some dental attention,. (Quote by - Charles Holt)
Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires. (Quote by - Chief Edward F. Croker)
In the spider- web of facts, many a truth is strangled. (Quote by - Paul Eldridge)
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. (Quote by - Rachel Carson)
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies. (Quote by - Brendan Gill)
Practical politics consists of ignoring facts. (Quote by - Henry Adams)
Belief creates the actual fact. (Quote by - William James)
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away. (Quote by - Dorothy L. Sayers)
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.. (Quote by - Peter F. Drucker)
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. (Quote by - Philip Roth)
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. (Quote by - William MacNeile Dixon)
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right. (Quote by - Bernard M. Baruch)
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned. (Quote by - Claud Cockburn)
If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public. (Quote by - Isocrates)
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts. (Quote by - William Osler)
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)
It is a well- known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. (Quote by - Gerhard Schroeder)
The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too. (Quote by - William Saroyan)
Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
Girl when the nights cold I'm warm holding the fact That I got you holding my back With my feelings stealing the blue of the sky leaving them grey Girl you the sun to brighten up my day When it seem like the hill to steep and my vision getting blurry Call on you my dove be there in a hurry When all is gone wrong and I can't go on you my angel immortalised in song baby forever. (Quote by - Will Smith)
Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true. (Quote by - Carl Rogers)
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. (Quote by - Jessamyn West)
Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts. (Quote by - James Fenimore Cooper)
I'm only aware of the facts of those two specific incidents. (Quote by - Peter Edwards)
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?. (Quote by - Frank Herbert)
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. (Quote by - Charles McCabe)
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself. (Quote by - Sonny Perdue)
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. (Quote by - Werner Herzog)
Don't confuse facts with reality. (Quote by - Robert D. Ballard)
This is a book lined with hard facts and stitched up with strong opinions. (Quote by - Suzy Menkes)
We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstanding. . (Quote by - Barry Long)
If he is looking weary and resigned to the fact that he is probably going to die before it is over, and if he has a deep, almost hopeless desire to go home and forget it all; if he looks with dull, uncomprehending eyes at the fresh-faced kid who is talking about all the joys of battle and killing Germans, then he comes from the same infantry as Joe and Willie . (Quote by - William H. Mauldin)
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
I have something to tell you non- smokers that I know for a fact that you don't know, and I feel it's my duty to pass on information at all times. Ready?. . . . Non- smokers die every day . . . Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You're dead too. (Quote by - Bill Hicks)
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts. (Quote by - Garry Winogrand)
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half- educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically. (Quote by - Pedro Almodovar)
The facts are always less than what really happened. (Quote by - Nadine Gordimer)
A concept is stronger than a fact. (Quote by - Charlotte P. Gillman)
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. (Quote by - Kathleen Casey Theisen)
Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. (Quote by - Charles Sanders Peirce)
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. (Quote by - Andy Rooney)
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. (Quote by - William Carlos Williams)
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. (Quote by - Mary McCarthy)
It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. (Quote by - Ayman al- Zawahiri)
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. (Quote by - Wilbur Wright)
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. (Quote by - Socrates)
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. (Quote by - Dr. Laurence J. Peter)
Facts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent. (Quote by - Peter Conrad)
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. (Quote by - Henri Cartier- Bresson)
New Yorkers have always shown that they really don't care about that kind of issue. In fact, they prefer it when their senators and governors are national figures. (Quote by - Steve Cohen)
I'm sorry to say so but, sadly it's true that bang- ups and hang- ups can happen to you. (Quote by - Dr. Seuss)
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. (Quote by - Sophia Loren)
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. (Quote by - Edith Hamilton)
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)
Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts. (Quote by - Ruth Gordon)
In fact, if it had been up to me I would have had them take a black screen and drop in front of me on stage and just let the people hear the music. (Quote by - David Allan Coe)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The fact check .. failed to admit he balanced the budget by cutting key services. .. Dean balanced the budget on the backs of the poor and sick, by cutting public campaign financing and using budget gimmicks. (Quote by - Howard Dean)
I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved. (Quote by - Gael Garcia Bernal)
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction. (Quote by - Alberto Moravia)
The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss. (Quote by - Thucydides)
In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader. (Quote by - Serge Schmemann)
Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever. (Quote by - Bob Marley)
All the facts have been changed to get laughs at my expense. I hope you enjoy it. (Quote by - Paula Abdul)
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism... (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. (Quote by - Dorothy Thompson)
When it sounds too bad to be true, Oprah, dry your eyes and check the facts. (Quote by - Michelle Malkin)
Comment is free but facts are sacred. (Quote by - Charles Prestwich Scott)
Yeah, you lose equipment, You lose the stage. You lose everything else. But the fact of the matter is everyone got out OK. That's all we cared about. Everything else can be replaced. (Quote by - Chad Michael Murray)
As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind. (Quote by - William Allen White)
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally. (Quote by - Ulysses S. Grant)
In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness. (Quote by - George Eliot)
We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people.. then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority. (Quote by - Robert J. Ringer)
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.)
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight. (Quote by - William James)
I've just come to terms with the fact that there is a group of people out there who is interested in one side of things that I'm not really interested in. (Quote by - Chris Martin)
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. (Quote by - Paul de Man)
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life. (Quote by - Aleister Crowley)
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
It is not a biopic; it is not a trawl through the facts of somebody's life. It is more an evening with a Shakespearean clown who speaks the truth and was whipped for his pains. Writing the play made me love and loathe my country more: love it that it could create, and has always created, one-offs like Quentin; loathe it for its rejection of him. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering. (Quote by - Catharine Esther Beecher)
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
Get the facts first. You can distort them later. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Johnny [Depp] is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian. (Quote by - Penelope Cruz)
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton. (Quote by - Cecil Rhodes)
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
We are not that flash, me or the missus [Madonna]. In fact, we are quite low- maintenance. (Quote by - Guy Ritchie)
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. (Quote by - Clarence Day)
It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut. (Quote by - Walter Parker Stacy)
A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)
I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get- go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships. (Quote by - Christina Applegate)
I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon. (Quote by - Arthur J. Goldberg)
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known. (Quote by - Richard Ford)
I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. (Quote by - Anon.)
If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction. (Quote by - Rain Bojangles)
Seek truth from facts. (Quote by - Deng Xiaoping)
What has religion to do with facts? Nothing. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place. (Quote by - Luigi Pirandello)
I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them; you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging. (Quote by - Aishwarya Rai)
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year. (Quote by - Truman Capote)
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
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. (Quote by - Dominic Monaghan)
Facts are the enemy of truth. . (Quote by - Don Quixote)
Our goal is to win a seventh consecutive title, but it will not be easy. In fact, we're not even the favorite this year. (Quote by - Chuck Tursky)
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
In fact, it makes me mad when someone kills snakes or dogs or cats or horses. I don't even like to eat meat - that is how much I am against killing... (Quote by - Charles Manson)
All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America. (Quote by - Nikita Khrushchev)
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. (Quote by - Clint Eastwood)
A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable. (Quote by - Lord Hailsham)
Manfred: Let's get something straight, ok? There's no "we". There never was a "we". In fact, without "me", it wouldn't even be a "you". (Quote by - Ice Age)
Smart is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)
There are no eternal facts as there are no eternal truths. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
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. . . (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. (Quote by - Edith Hamilton)
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. (Quote by - Marie Dressler)
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. (Quote by - E. B. White)
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet. (Quote by - Carl Lewis)
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labor, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.)
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. (Quote by - David Hunt)
To be conservative...is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss. (Quote by - Michael Oakeshott)
There are no facts, only interpretations. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so- called ''scientific'' mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips. (Quote by - Cynthia Ozick)
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. (Quote by - Arnold H Glasgow)
If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts. (Quote by - Benedict Spinoza)
In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self- righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct. (Quote by - Michio Kaku)
Public- relations specialists make flower arrangements of the facts, placing them so that the wilted and less attractive petals are hidden by sturdy blooms. (Quote by - Alan Harrington)
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law. (Quote by - Alan M. Dershowitz)
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. (Quote by - Mortimer Adler)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. (Quote by - Will Smith)
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. (Quote by - Celia Green)
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away. (Quote by - Christina G. Rossetti)
Doubts often beget the facts they fear.(Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up. (Quote by - Margaret Culkin Banning)
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. (Quote by - Thomas More)
I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches. (Quote by - Alain de Botton)
The room within is the great fact about the building. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The world is the totality of facts, not of things. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. (Quote by - William Saroyan)
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. (Quote by - Edward Teller)
Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank. (Quote by - Dan Millman)
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I arrived. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
I hope that knowledge about past facts will continue to be passed down in a proper manner .. and will be used for future benefit. (Quote by - Emperor Akihito)
The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re- proved, a continual quest for an ever- receding Holy Grail. (Quote by - Marc Feigen Fasteau)
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. (Quote by - George Bataille)
Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory. (Quote by - Stephen Jay Gould)
Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co- operation. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. (Quote by - Evan Esar)
I have always found that if I move with seventy- five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. (Quote by - Lee Iacocca)
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. (Quote by - Dan Castellaneta)
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case. (Quote by - Aristotle)
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. (Quote by - Claude Bernard)
Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning. (Quote by - Marlo Thomas)
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran. (Quote by - Ken Blanchard)
There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible. (Quote by - G. Wilhelm Leibniz)
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. (Quote by - Henri Poincar)
People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life. (Quote by - Catherine Deneuve)
Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion. (Quote by - American Proverb)
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them. (Quote by - William James)
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. (Quote by - Augusto Roa Bastos)
That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes. (Quote by - William T. Sherman)
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth. (Quote by - William C. Redfield)
You should always be aware of your surroundings, and always be conscious of the fact that no matter where you are, there may be somebody whose primary objective is to get the better of you and your wallet. (Quote by - Steve Loucks)
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Getting these three wins puts a staple on the fact that we're a different team. But these were three wins we were supposed to have, and the Big Ten is a whole different season in itself. We're starting over now. (Quote by - Alan Zemaitis)
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. (Quote by - Charles de Lint)
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. (Quote by - Randall Jarrell)
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. (Quote by - Charles R. Swindoll)
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; - for causes which are unpenetrated. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If the dream is big enough the facts don't matter. (Quote by - Dexter Yager)
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. (Quote by - Wilhelm Reich)
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. (Quote by - William Allen White)
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts. (Quote by - Margaret Sanger)
