Facts Quotes - Page 39

Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.

The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.

I'm not a fan of the facts. Facts change; my opinion never does.

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a plan. Ever. The Europeans don't want to do anything, saying, "The Americans are in charge of that." And in fact the Americans are in charge of naming it and bringing these resolutions every few weeks to the Security Council.

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Honestly, my character doesn't have much in common with Harry Potter besides the fact that he's an unlikely hero who's thrown into a huge situation.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

I think that I'm increasingly aware of the fact that in order to work towards any statement that's radically global or universal, you have to start in a place that's radically intimate and particular.

Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction.

Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.