... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you are a Christian, you can still practice Stoicism and think of the Logos as the Word of God. If you… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste;… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative… — Freeman Tilden Copy Share Image
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of… — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people.… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere. — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
In my case, I made the decision early on that I was going to be very open about the book and claim… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
