Quotes About Facts

Si la simpatía de los amigos no altera los hechos, por lo menos los hace más soportables.

Conservatives have managed to turn the phrase "mainstream media," or "lame stream media," as that noted arbiter of intellectual rigor, Sarah Palin, called it, into a pejorative. But what is mainstream media? It's the journalism that believes in standards, strives to report facts, and has a professional standard to correct errors. It's the news the majority of Americans consume.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications.

I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.

Although they sometimes claim objectivity, historians are the most subjective of all writers. Hidden behind the thousands of facts unearthed by research, they safely arrange the world to reflect their own vision.

It's dangerous to make a judgement when one can't know all the facts," pursued Darrow, "and since only God can know all the facts, one can only conclude that it's best to leave the judgements to God.

The sum total of all this, then, is that you want to ask only about facts and information the client can provide without having to probe her feelings or motivations. After all, if she were clear about her feelings, she probably wouldn't be coming for help with a problem in the first place. Furthermore, asking "why" can lead you into making premature judgments about the client's problem, since you will be fighting the desire for explanations and conclusions.

The biopsychosocial assessment is based mostly on facts about the client's life and a description of the problem which the client has provided you during a series of interviews. The mental status exam is essentially your observations. It is used in different ways in different clinical settings, but those differences have more to do with the time at which one formulates one's findings than they do with content.

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

Only historians tell you what they thought. Research workers stick to what they did.

Give me research. After all, the truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper. The sale of a house. The price of a ring.

Our choices are affected by how information is framed. Depending on which qualities are emphasized, identical facts can be more or less appealing."

I think it was Mark Twain who said, "Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

un diario de referencia que no solo contara los hechos, sino que fuera capaz de explicar sus causas, enmarcarlos en un contexto y elaborar un análisis y una reflexión en torno a ellos.

Why should joy be banned forever? Why do they think that thinking is a crime? Why do they put clamps on ideas? The Law's judgments should rest on facts alone, proven, consummated facts.

The Tea Party is a fitting representation of our era of no-debate, politically correct politics, where each political side has its own media, and opposing views are almost never given a fair hearing. Conservatives listen only to conservatives, and liberals listen only to liberals. People are spared the inconvenience of facts that don't fit their beliefs and the unpleasantness of seriously considering a point of view other than their own.

The U.S. legal system is organized as an adversarial contest: in civil cases, between two citizens; in criminal cases, between a citizen and the state. Physical violence and intimidation are not allowed in court, whereas aggressive argument, selective presentation of the facts, and psychological attack are permitted, with the presumption that this ritualized, hostile encounter offers the best method of arriving at the truth.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.

My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.