Facts Quotes - Page 40

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

What we have been is an established and unchangeable fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless opportunity.

Apart from the fact that I can move the bike fast, I am basically Joe Average.

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.

Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind.

Ironically, members on both sides of the debate do agree about one thing: big bang cosmology puts their position in jeopardy. The big bang poses a problem for young-earth creationists because it makes the universe billions of years old rather than thousands. Such an assertion undercuts their system at its foundation. Big bang cosmology also presents a problem for atheistic scientists because it points directly to the existence of a transcendent Creator - a fact they dare not concede.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Facing facts is always empowering.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.

Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.