Facts Quotes
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Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.
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The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.
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Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.
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You are the creator of your own reality, and so you are not in jeopardy. You do not need to control the behavior of others in order for you to thrive. Your attention to things that you think they do that keeps you from your thriving is, in fact, what keeps you from your thriving... It is not what they do to you; it's what you do to you in fear of what you think that they will do to you.
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Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.
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Smart is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
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And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
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In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.
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The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.
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When Bernard Leach wrote his book, he wrote about the fact that even when pots are made in a series, there is a personality to each pot and that the person who made it reflects their personality into the clay.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.
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Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.
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Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts.
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...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
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We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.
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In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
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I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.
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Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.
