Facts Quotes - Page 24

Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.

Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.

Life is Happiness. Happiness is the fact that I can do something right now.

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.

Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything

The invalidity of Darwinism and the actuality of creation are scientific facts.

Stocks are bought on expectations, not facts.

I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell.

When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.

To think is an act. To feel is a fact.

Believe the truth of God's Word over the facts of your circumstances.

Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed.

The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.

The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

Go wherever the facts lead.