Challenges Quote by Sarah Churchwell Download Open image “Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.” — Sarah Churchwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Challenges Conviction Facts Faith Ifs Made Might Mind Psychology
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. — Robert Keith Leavitt Copy Share Image
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The thing with thoughts is that they are exactly that - they aren't facts. — Luke Campbell Copy Share Image
Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be… — Chris Johnson Copy Share Image
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your… — David Tang Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“The Volstead Act, prohibiting the production, sale, and transport of “intoxicating liquors,” became law on January 17, 1920. Prohibition didn’t prohibit much, and incited… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“History resembles a guest list, in that sense, of the invited and the gate-crashers, the people, for whom we have been waiting, and those… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“young people no longer “believe in the old standards and authorities, and they’re not intelligent enough, many of them, to put a code of… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“Doing the work to transform your dreams into reality is like walking across the earth. It can be that hard, and it can take… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges. — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts— so what? ” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
I personally think if something's not a challenge, there's no point doing it, because you're not gonna learn much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
