Facts Quotes - Page 111

No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

In fact living is dying.

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

[Adolf Hitler] was Austrian, so he knew how to play that role [being capable of apologizing]. In fact, it wasn't playacting, it was just part of who he was. He hated to see women cry or women upset.

You can't smoke in a restaurant in Los Angeles, which is mildly ironic, when you consider the fact that you can't breathe outside a restaurant in Los Angeles.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted.

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.