Quotes About Facts

The facts of a man's life ain't very important, but it seems like they should get said anyways.

La mejor explicación para cualquier fenómeno —dijo Karras, pasando por alto la observación— es siempre la más sencilla que se presente y que incluya todos los hechos.

Paranoia means having all the facts.

TIRING FACTS OF INFANT SLEEP Babies enter sleep through REM sleep; they need help to go to sleep.

When Aristotle said that poetry is superior to history because history only tells us "what Alcibiades did or had done to him," he had in mind history as the mere compilation of facts. To matter, history has to do more. It has to reconnect people, in time, to what Aristotle called the "timeless forms" of nature.

At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Being the best trial lawyer alone does not always win the case. What wins cases is hard work and preparation from the entire team. In each of the trials in which I have been involved, we won in large part because our team was better prepared, had a better strategy and trial theme, and knew the facts on our feet better than the other side."

I don't find it funny, I just think self-pity's probably not the answer.' 'It's not self-pity, it's the facts.' 'My life is effectively "over"?' 'I just mean. I don't know. Just….' He looked into the canal and gave a theatrical sigh. 'When I was younger everything seemed possible. Now nothing does.

We used to think that eggs were evil and margarine was magical, but now we know that eggs are among the world's most nutrient-dense foods and that margarine contains deadly trans fats.

Like my father, Donor White could hold in his head the incompatible demands of rationality and irrationality, of facts and love.

ideas—and where facts were scarce, directive questions. Other

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...

Never, ever, ever, act on assumptions. Search out the facts and act on those.

Nothing in the universe had a shorter half-life than a politician's memory for inconvenient facts

The Internet's abundant capacity has removed the old artificial constraints on publishing—including getting our content checked and verified. The new strategy of publishing everything we find out thus results in an immense cloud of data, free of theory, published before verified, and available to anyone with an Internet connection. And this is changing the role that facts have played as the foundation of knowledge.

The social and technological process by which we establish facts becomes invisible to us because we naturalize it. Language-dependent and institutional facts come to seem like brute facts to us: this is true for social institutions, like money, but even more so for claims about the natural world which are, in truth, theory dependent: we have naturalized the idea that the heights of mountains should be measured from sea level, an idea that would have made no sense in the Middle Ages.

We think of material realities as facts, but in the quantum world, all possibilities exist simultaneously and then condense into probabilities

Read Between The Lies Of History: Research & Destroy

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.

When facts give way to faith, then and only then have you unlocked the possibilities within!

Scott himself had taught me that in the boundless sphere of the intellect there is no prudishness, no shockability. There is only evaluation of facts, and a morality founded on truth.