Facts Quotes

The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Without a theory the facts are silent.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.

I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.

I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care what the facts are. Said after 'Vincennes' shot down an Iranian Airliner.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.

My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.

The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

Don't face the facts.

FACT: You CAN make money doing what you love! Even in a down economy!

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

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

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.