Facts Quotes

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

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

The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.

The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.

People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?

He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary.....The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

My refrigerator is powerful. In fact, it has a direct link to my overall well-being.

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.

To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

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.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant?in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.

Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

The only way for a soldier to not be afraid of wars is to accept the fact that he is already dead.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.