Facts Quotes - Page 117

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

The emotions will take care of themselves. You don't have to prod them along. As a matter of fact, you get in trouble when you prod them along.

A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.

This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

All genuine progress results from finding new facts

I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.

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.

People talk about things happening and it being "unbelievable," and it's exactly the reverse. It's really believable, but we are so conditioned to believe that these kinds of things are just coincidences, that they're just things that show up arbitrarily in our lives, when the fact is that all of us have this kind of guidance available to us.

Enjoy the moment, because that is all you have. You never are going to arrive someplace else. You are in a constant state of living in this moment, and that is the only arrival there is. In fact, you will arrive when you stop trying to get someplace else.

If you perform your part, God will fulfill His. And once you put off specifically, you should just as thoroughly believe that God will renew your mind, despite the fact you know not how.

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.

When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.

Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.