Quotes About Facts

get out into the world to challenge their own assumptions, says, "No facts exist inside the building, only opinions." As a former marketer, Blank's point is that people won't know what problems they are actually solving for customers if they always stay in their cubicles.

But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.

Journalism is just the facts." He had been learning about journalism at school, from a textbook, and it seemed to him that his father had abridged some basic journalistic principle. "But which facts?" Arthur asked him. "Which facts do we print, Ishmael?

the progressive search for demons no matter the facts or circumstances is rooted in a need to see themselves as saviors of people so "oppressed" they are unable to lift themselves up.

Yet even for some, the stagnation looms over life. It breeds political dysfunction, and it helps explain why so many Americans aren't swayed by facts. When you have been struggling for decades, you tend to lose faith in society's institutions and their sober-minded experts.

The problem is that we won't ever know that, and a lack of data never wins debates.

one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

Consiousness sticks language onto existence, papering over existential facts that stick out awkwardly; or it attached words to such objects like ropes whereby it can drag and fling them about as it pleases.

In journalism," said Lousteau, "everything that is probable is true. That is an axiom.

For an article, I only needed to read the first and last paragraphs followed by the initial sentence of each remaining paragraph, writing down pertinent dates and facts as I went. Finally, I had to make sure to read the foot- or endnotes to the article and circle back, because those would point to important information in the text.

Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979; reprinted with new postscript and index in 1986).

Those of us who pursue science studies are the Darwins of science, showing how the exquisite beauty of facts, theories, instruments and machines can be accounted for without ever resorting to teleological principles or arguments by design

I don't believe in principles. They don't exist! There are laws and facts...

The average Pakistani student is brought up on a mix of dogma and mythology that does not encourage respect for facts or empiricism.

In Pakistan, a perception has been officially cultivated that anyone who offers facts, statistics or opinions that do not coincide with the national narrative does so at the behest of Pakistan's many external enemies.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death.

The truth for a novelist isn;t the same as the facts . . . When a writer is successful in using a story taken from experience, it is not told exactly the way it happened, but in the way that reveals, through all one's beliefs, hopes, and fear, how the event should have happened.

People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips

Every great discovery or decision comes by an act of divination. Facts are fitted round afterwards.

In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

Am I a liberal or conservative? I'm neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I'd like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.

If you really want to make a difference you don't do it via Tweet, via Facebook, via Instagram - you get down, you understand what the facts are and then you offer a path forward.