Top 1200 Ignoring Facts Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.

Facts may speak for themselves.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Without a theory the facts are silent.

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree.

Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it.

Stocks are bought on expectations, not facts.

Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.

Small facts lead to great knowing.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

There are millions of people out there ignoring disabilities and accomplishing incredible feats. I learned you can learn to do things differently, but do them just as well. I've learned that it's not the disability that defines you, it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. And I've learned that we have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

The thing with thoughts is that they are exactly that - they aren't facts.

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

When facts speak, the wise man listens.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

I'm the type of person who responds to facts.

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

By downplaying clear targets and frameworks, ... the Prime Minister is ignoring calls from UK companies who want a clear framework to operate within now. There has been a lot of discussion about the false choice between targets and technologies, but the reality is that without both we cannot achieve either.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

A logical picture of facts is a thought.

No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

A death is the most terrible of facts.

I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.