Facts Quotes
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell
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I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.
Alexei Panshin
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I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.
Renee Fleming
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Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
Edward Hallett Carr
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For falsification to constitute an offence there must be proof of "intent to deceive." This is a legally prescribed element of the offence and is negated when the report is submitted in conformity with orders from a higher authority in possession of the true facts.
George Scratchley Brown
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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.
J. I. Packer
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With a feature film you're dealing with so much more money and you've got to be very aware of the fact that you're really working with an audience. You've got to have a relationship with the audience. Play with them and show them things you want them to see.
Taika Waititi
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I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.
Thomas Sowell
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“Facts and credibility only support persuasion.”
Dan S. Kennedy
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The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.
William James
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But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.
Christie Craig
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The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.
George C. Homans
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Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.
Ayanna Pressley
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I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.
Richie Benaud
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I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.
Tom Hollander
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I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
Steve Toltz
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The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as a definite, abstract statement of fact. So it is from the first words...to the last, the works of the Father are declared as facts, not theories.
Anthony W. Ivins
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There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.
Alix Ohlin
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What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.
Geoffrey Rush
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I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary world is provincial when it comes to matters of art. And it always has been.
Richard Grossman
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Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
Ivan Pavlov
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Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.
will.i.am
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Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than science, business and law because they constitute the common denominator of all of them.
Carl W. Ackerman