Top 1200 Ignoring Facts Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

Believe the truth of God's Word over the facts of your circumstances.

It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.

Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.

The facts are, China's aspirations are not good for us, nor our families.

The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.

If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.

Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

I'm not gonna make 65. Let's just face facts, guys.

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

I know you [Donald Trump] live in your own reality, but that is not the facts.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.

All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.

What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.

Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.

No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed.

Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

We must get all the facts on the table, and then determine where we go.

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.

Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.