Facts Quotes
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Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
C. S. Lewis
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.
William Wilberforce
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
William James
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Our emotions don't necessarily tell us the facts about the situation, rather they tell us our interpretation of the facts.
Carolyn Mahaney
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Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.
C. D. Broad
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There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
Simon Travaglia
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
William James
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
William James
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I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
Umberto Eco
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The sum of a million facts is not the truth.
William Manchester
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Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge my batteries in solitude, therefore the motorcycle trips. I need to be alone. As a matter of fact, I have to be careful. I could turn into a hermit.
William H. Macy
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The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
J. G. Holland
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I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.
Kevin Spacey
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I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.
Terrence Mitchell Riley
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The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.
Iain Pears
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Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.
Judy Smith
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I teach at Georgetown, and I see that the students have so many different interests. The main thing is to match your passion with your knowledge, because you can't just be passionate without knowing the facts, and facts are really boring without passion.
Madeleine Albright
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There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.
Carolyn Hax
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The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.
Hippolyte Taine
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If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.
Barack Obama
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
William S. Burroughs