Facts Quotes - Page 13

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same

The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is the people.

When a market makes a historic high, it is telling you something. No matter how many people tell you why the market shouldn't be that high, or why nothing has changed, the mere fact that the price is at a new high tells you something has changed.

It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it.

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires.

Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don't have to prove that scientifically. It's a fact.

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.

We (the FBI) are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.