Facts Quotes - Page 42

. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage. . .

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature theorizing are positive disadvantages in approaching a planet where-as has become clear-anything is possible... The fact is that in spite of his cautious nature the scrupulous Giese more than once jumped to premature conclusions. Even when on their guard, human beings inevitably theorize.

I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. Im into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.

I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs. In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring.

In fact, we are designed anatomically to be vegetarians.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

The only hope you have is to accept the fact that youre already dead.

Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.

But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.

When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.

If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.

A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . . The fact that there is an end to one's life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead.

I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.