Facts Quotes
The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.
I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.
It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.
It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
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.
It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.
I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.
The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.
The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.
Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.
Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.
In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.
Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there are ways of "registering the facts" that do not lead to outrage.
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.
When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.
For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.
The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.
The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.
It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.