Quotes About Facts

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.

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

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

Pigg said he was afraid that old trouts were female. "They can't all be," aunt Dot, who knew natural history and the facts of fish life, corrected him.

innocent, as if they perceived only pre-selected facts.

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

There is no conversation that can build a translation bridge connecting this epistemic divide; conspiracism fractures the common political world. Where the new conspiracism extinguishes common sense, there can be no argument or negotiation or compromise—all of which require some shared terrain of facts and a shared horizon of what it means to know something.

In class I was out of place because I could so easily be distracted from concepts by metaphors and facts. Clearly, I was less intelligent than I had hoped, and I felt frustrated by an inarticulate notion that something was wrong if old material was processed as if the immediate past and the uncertain future had no bearing on it.

Justice is based on reason, the truth, the facts, what is fair, not emotion.

Let's just face truth. Facts! Whether or not the white man of the world is able to face truth, and facts, about the true reasons for his troubles—that's what essentially will determine whether or not he will now survive.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

People have always had different opinions. Now they have different facts.

O Reader! If there were less of this delicate concealment of facts- this whispering ''Peace, Peace, when there is no peace- there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.

We should respect not only the facts but the law. If we do not, then we lay ourselves open to every man's judgment of what may be true or false; and a belief of guilt will become the same thing as proof. There must be something above individual judgment, however passionately felt, or we become barbarous again." "Of course he may be guilty," she said very quietly.

I know nothing of those heroes of macabre facts masquerading as fiction.

It is safe to assume that any individual or group you wish to influence has access to more wisdom than they currently use. It is also safe to assume that they also have considerably more facts than they can process effectively. Giving them even more facts adds to the wrong pile. They don't need more facts. They need help finding their wisdom. Contrary to popular belief, bad decisions are rarely made because people don't have all the facts.

Selling is about a transference of emotion, not a presentation of facts.

When access to information was limited, we needed to load student sup with facts. Now, when we have no scarcity of facts or the access to them, we need to load them up with understanding.

Selling is about a transference of emotion, not a presentation of facts. If it were just a presentation of facts, then a PDF flyer or a Web site would be sufficient to make the phone ring.

What the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more potent than facts. Loyalty is all one way, from the woman to the man. And when society stacks up all the odds against a woman, she'd better not count on the man's support. She has no way out other than to end her own life. And I'm in love with an Indian. I must be crazy.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.