Top 1200 Facts Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
Explore popular Facts quotes.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.
I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.
That's sort of what showbusiness is - a charade. People are basing their assumptions about you on half the facts. The rest of it just isn't true.
Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either of those things.
Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.
To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.
Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.
The market is full of talk, I prefer facts, which help us win, and to become great together.
It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.
Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back
I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
If you tap people's racial anxieties, you're not going to get them to be able to hear any of your facts.
No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise.
Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts.
I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.
It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.
What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy
Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
I don't read a lot of books but love magazines like 'Psychology Today.' It's great for getting quick facts.
I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues.
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
When you start writing fiction, you have to learn to invent, and it's very hard at the beginning to stop relying on facts and what you've heard.
We win with facts that are well expressed and frequently communicated; we lose with silence and indifference to the broader social context.
It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.
It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts
Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.
The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.
So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.
I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier.
Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.
It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.
Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
