Facts Quotes - Page 116

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me.

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.

The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.

The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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.

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.