Quotes About Facts

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

When the lunatic is met with ideas incompatible with his delusion he distorts facts by rationalization to preserve the inner consistency of his delusions.

What I have always loved best about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were no less real than you and I are today.

There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.

Science and The Word of God There is a constant effort made to explain the work of creation as the result of natural causes; and human reasoning is accepted even by professed Christians, in opposition to plain Scripture facts. There are many who oppose the investigation of the prophecies, especially those of Daniel

for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.

He misliked the very word "interesting," connoting it with wasted energy and even with morbidity. Hard facts were enough for him.

a feeling that terrestrial facts must be ignored, and that the abolition of respirators was a positive gain.

I didn't believe in such things. I believed in facts, science and, every once in a while, human beings.

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

We have to get the facts right as best as we can. Otherwise, history becomes what Du Bois referred to as "lies agreed upon.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite.

In recording my impressions of the natural scene I have striven above all for accuracy, since I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. But the desert is a vast world, an oceanic world, as deep in its way and complex and various as the sea. Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite.

To some perhaps it may appear a little strained to place this last-mentioned form of attachment on a level of importance with the others, and such persons may be inclined to deny to the homogenic [...] or homosexual love that intense, that penetrating, and at times overmastering character which would entitle it to rank as a great human passion. But in truth this view, when entertained, arises from a want of acquaintance with the actual facts.

Cheerleaders know that pyramids were not built in Egypt.

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.

This book is dedicated to presenting some facts behind the making of minds that think, create narratives and meaning, remember the past and imagine the future; and to presenting some facts behind the machinery of feeling and consciousness responsible for the reciprocal connections among minds, the outside world, and its respective life.

Milton S. Terry, for example, author of one of the most conservative textbooks on hermeneutics (1890), begins: "Hermeneutics is the science of interpretation."4 Yet even Terry concedes that hermeneutics "is both a science and an art. As a science it enunciates principles . . . and classifies the facts and results. As an art, it teaches what application these principles should have . . . showing their practical value in the elucidation of more difficult scriptures.

I love to kill fish,' Sayle went on. 'But when I saw this specimen of Physalia physalis , I knew I had to capture it and keep it. You see, it reminds me of myself.' 'It's ninety-nine per cent water. It has no brain, no guts and no anus.' Alex had dredged up the facts from somewhere and spoken them before he knew what he was doing.