Quotes About Fact

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war.

But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers...

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

I left him and took myself off, having become certain about a fact which was later on to cost me much peace of mind: that in one form or another I was in love with Hosna Bint Mahmoud, the widow of Mustafa Sa'eed, and that I—like him and Wad Rayyes and millions of others—was not immune from the germ of contagion that oozes from the body of the universe.

On the one side are the truths of fact, on the other the truth of the writer's feeling, and where the two coincide cannot be decided by any outside authority in advance.

Por un lado está la verdad de los hechos; por el otro, la verdad del sentimiento del autor, y donde coinciden las dos ninguna autoridad externa puede prestarse a decidirlo.

Where, then, does your vision of the world reside? What part of your art is drawn from history? What part is prophecy? What part is grounded in fact? What part takes wing in fantasy? These are useful questions. Do you really want to leave it to outsiders and non-artists to make up your answers for you? Many

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I've, in fact, very specifically said I don't support defunding the police.

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.

Speculation replaces fact. It's very easy to see news outlets running with information that is unconfirmed or erroneous.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

There have been several movies that I've done over the years that have got a bad shake - 'Speed Racer' was one of them. I loved that movie, and the fact it got such a bad reception was disheartening.

Coconut oil has been described as the "World's Healthiest Dietary Oil". There is a mountain of historical evidence and medical research to verify this fact

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

I would say that the ability of people to agree on matters of fact not immediately visible—states of affairs removed from them in space and time—ramped up from a baseline of approximately zero to a pretty high level around the time of the scientific revolution and all that, and stayed there and became more globally distributed up through the Cronkite era, and then dropped to zero incredibly quickly when the Internet came along.

Condense fact from the vapor of nuance. Hiro has never forgotten the sound of her speaking those words, the feeling that came over him as he realized for the first time how smart Juanita was.