Facts Quotes
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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
Talcott Parsons -
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
Ray Bradbury
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Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.
Thomas Sowell -
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
Malcolm Forbes -
Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
Iain McGilchrist -
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter -
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton -
If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.
Alicia Keys
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The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.
Mark Levin -
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.
William of Occam -
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
Barney Frank -
The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
Oliver Tambo -
Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
J. D. Hayworth
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Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
Thomas Sowell -
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
Samuel McChord Crothers -
There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
Finley Peter Dunne -
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Jack Prelutsky -
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
Karen Traviss -
It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.
Donald Miller
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
Nancy Cartwright -
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
Patrick Kavanagh -
In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter
Longchenpa -
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore