Facts Quotes - Page 62

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.

The doctrine of the Trinity...is truth for the heart. The fact that it can not be satisfactorily explained, instead of being against it, is in its favor. Such a truth had to be revealed; no one could imagine it.

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality

What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.

I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.

There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.