Quotes About Facts

A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

I wish social disparity has long gone, people can be genuine, and news can be fact-based and error-free.

V. S. Pritchett has a challenging aside in which he describes Jane Austen as a war novelist, pointing out that the facts of the long war are basic to all her books.

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.

First ponder then dare. Know your facts. Count the cost. Money is not the important thing. What you are building is not a medical school. It is the Kingdom of God. Don't err on the side of being too small. If this is the will of God that we should find some way to keep the college open. It has to be done.

That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.

I've only read a few chapters of this book, Trumpet Blast Warning but it's amazing. All of his statements are backed up by original quotes & references from top politicians, the media, etc, so you can check for yourselves & discover this is not a conspiracy theory about world government, it's all backed by facts! All Christians, especially pastors & prayer groups really should read this book. Many thanks to Jason Carter for sending me a copy!

Of course, neither Doug nor Andrew walked away from the parade thinking, "I enjoyed my particular perspective on the parade based on the information I paid attention to." Each walked away thinking, "I enjoyed the parade." Each assumes that what he paid attention to was what was significant about the experience. Each assumes he has "the facts.

The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless.

I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have fifty cents left in my bank account" is a fact. Facing facts is always empowering. Be

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are...