Facts Quotes · Page 160

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

— Tom Brokaw

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

— Benjamin Franklin

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

— Dorothy Day

Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.

— Swami Vivekananda

Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.

— Noam Chomsky

Certain people become gluttons for punishment, never knowing when they've had their fill.

— Melchor Lim

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

— Keith Waterhouse

Dont give up! The pain youre feeling now will go away, while the knowledge that you gave up never will.

— Melchor Lim

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in…

— Lester Bangs

You know what sucks in life is when you get this hope that something really special is going to happen and then…

— Melchor Lim

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there…

— Abraham Robinson

People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a…

— Sheldon Richman

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of…

— Celia Green

The truth is this: everyone's going to hurt you. It's the reason why we can't have friendships/relationships like we see in books,…

— Isaiah Harden (Me

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly…

— Agnes Repplier

When you practice self-love and self-respect, you give yourself the opportunity to be happy. When you are happy, you become a better…

— Melchor Lim

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not…

— Eliot Spitzer

The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she…

— H. L. Mencken

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to…

— Anonymous

We've now got a group of young people in this country who for all practical purposes are American. They grew up here.…

— Barack Obama

I think another [myth] is that some marriages are just hopeless. This is a common thing I hear from people, "Well, I…

— Gary Chapman

Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right…

— Jeffrey Boam

I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sexually, and…

— Jessica Valenti

The fact that [Hillary Clinton] is pushing for paid family leave and also for [affordable] childcare will make a huge difference for…

— Natalie Portman

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

— Nicholas of Cusa

Don't continue to water a dead flower, plant a new seed.

— Melchor Lim

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

— Aldous Huxley

Everybody Is Gifted But Most People Don't Open Their Package.

— Anonymous

I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.

— Katherine Applegate

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly~Anuj Somany

— Anuj Somany

You're not grown up until you start thinking about how your actions affect others, and not just yourself.

— Nishan Panwar

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

— Michael Bierut

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high…

— Angela Merkel

The fact that dogs are not people means you don't have as much response to the particulars.

— Susan Orlean

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

— Maurice Allais

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

— Louis Stokes

Love life the way it is. when it changes its for the best...

— Melchor Lim

You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

— Terry Pratchett

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

— Elton John