Top 1200 Ignoring Facts Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.

But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.

African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society; every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.

In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

The facts are clear. Obamacare is failing the American people.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in order to watch another episode of '24' that one day I wouldn't need that geography degree and I'd actually be in '24,' I'd have been quite pleased, I think.

You would throw away all that we have given you for a man’s love?” “Not a man’s love,” I say softly. “But Duval’s. And I would find a way to serve both my god and my heart. Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.

There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.

I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

The invalidity of Darwinism and the actuality of creation are scientific facts.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

I'm a 'just the facts, ma'am' kind of guy.

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

Death cannot alter facts - only feelings.

The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

All genuine progress results from finding new facts

But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.

Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn't fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point.

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.

I don't see the value of boringly reporting the cold facts.

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.

Falling in love is like death... they are both facts

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

We should follow the facts wherever they lead us.

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.