Facts Quotes - Page 34

People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.

To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !

The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.