Facts Quotes - Page 157

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

Facts speak louder than statistics.

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.

Every fiction has its base in fact.

True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has to any verifiable facts.

Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.

I don't make any secret of the fact that I'm closer to the Republicans than to the Democrats. But even under a President Hillary Clinton, US foreign policy toward Moscow would probably be more critical and confrontational. I hope it isn't too late for that.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident

Most people think of death as the end, when in fact, death can be the beginning.

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.

Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.

I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.