Quotes About Statement

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

Stop telling the truth about my record!

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Your Strategic Objective is a very clear statement of what your business has to ultimately do for you to achieve your Primary Aim.

Your Income Statement tells you (1) how much money you're spending and where; and(2) how much money you're receiving and from where. Flow gives you the same information as the Income Statement, plus it tells you when you're spending and receiving money—that is, Flow is an Income Statement moving through time.

This difference between a probability statement on the one hand, and the probability of a statement, or the degree of belief in a statement on the other, may seem elusive, but is actually quite obvious.

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

I was never in an episode of I LOVE LUCY!

Consider the oft-quoted statement "the exception proves the rule." Most people take this to mean that the exception confirms the rule, though when you ask them to explain the logic in that statement, they usually cannot. After all, how can an exception prove a rule? It can't. The answer is that an earlier meaning of prove was to test (a meaning preserved in proving ground) and with that meaning the statement suddenly becomes sensible—the exception tests the rule.

Media coverage of Milley's letter was scant, but Vox reported it was a "remarkable statement" and "it looks as though America's top military officials won't tolerate another thing: the attempted overthrow of American democracy by force.

I have a confession. Oh? I can't get you off my mind. His statement robbed her of words. Heat spread down the nape of her neck. He was saying too much. ~Thomas to Chelise

It was as though the Gods had dropped something—a comb, a hairpin, a needle—and it had fallen down to earth; unimaginably huge and incomprehensibly magnificent, made of celestial materials by a divine craftsman, too big and too beautiful to have any place in our world, utterly incongruous, a numbing statement of the difference between Them and us— Excuse me. It was an impressive sight.

She gave him precisely the look of disgust he deserved for such a statement, and strode away without another word.

I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

There is no racism in Italy.

An endless task, the cataloguing of reality. We accumulate facts, we discuss them, but with every line that is written, with every statement that is made, one has the feeling of incompleteness.