Top 1200 Ignoring Facts Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm not a fan of the facts. Facts change; my opinion never does.

I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

I don’t like facts, because facts get in the way of my feelings.

If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context

I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

It's very rare to find a place where news itself has a political bent. Normally, let's say in the U.K. for instance, newspapers might explicitly support one party or the other, but television is just straight-up facts that are not influenced by any party from either side. In South Africa we try to maintain the same thing. Unfortunately, the government sometimes intervenes, but for the most part, the facts are the facts.

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.

From what I can tell, pollsters are generally fairly stick-to-the-facts folks. They deal in facts and statistics.

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much benignly misguided as they are intentionally and willfully ignorant of the facts of reproduction. That lends itself very well to them being ideologically driven and carrying out agendas that, if they were to be really honest about the facts, would be a tougher sell.

Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.

I've learned... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.

Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number of facts. ... Theories are only hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.

I take facts about reasons to be fundamental in two ways. First, I believe that facts about reasons are not reducible to or analyzable in terms of facts of other kind, such as facts about the natural world. Second, I believe that reasons are the fundamental elements of the normative domain, and other normative notions, such as goodness and moral right and wrong can be explained in terms of reasons.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless of new evidence? Doubt and skepticism are signs of rationality. When we are too certain of our opinions, we run the risk of ignoring any evidence that conflicts with our views. It is doubt that shows we are still thinking, still willing to reexamine hardened beliefs when confronted with new facts and new evidence.

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves.

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

It's not facts that hurt people, it's their attitude towards facts.

I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

With handball, you have soft facts but not hard facts. The shot is wide, and then suddenly, it's a penalty.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.