Facts Quote by Celia Green Download Open image “The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.” — Celia Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Facts Human race Humans Method Race
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Facts are like a big buffet; we pick the ones we like and ignore the ones we don't like. — Perry Lane Copy Share Image
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for… — William R. Brody Copy Share Image
Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Truth be told from compulsive liars with a history/Everything must change 2nd chances are a mystery — C-DASH Copy Share Image
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
