Facts Quotes - Page 167

That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left to convert into money.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them.

It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, a kind of misunderstanding.

Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there.

i would say it was nice to meet you, but the fact is it wasnt. in fact, it was quite awkward.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.

The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.

The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men