Facts Quotes - Page 48

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

I've always been intrigued by things that insinuate femininity, so in my designs, something like a flower is never about the fact that it's a flower. It's more about what that repetitive motif implies.

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

The fact speak for themselves.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

So, in effect, what I'm saying is that my research is very strongly pointing to the fact that the extraterrestrials are not coming, they're not going to invade, they've actually been controlling this planet, increasingly, for thousands of years.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

In fact I've probably never seen such a wide moat.

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.

The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.