Facts Quotes - Page 70

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust my feeling or capacity to find the right form for something. Even if that is only by being well organized. That too is form.

In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

From within, from the very most interior center of existence and consciousness, the fact of oneness evermore proves to be the overriding truth.

Better to discuss everything out in the open while you're in love, then if or when the relationship sadly ends. It's called Full Disclosure Before The Fact.

Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of Reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Pretend that I ain't in fact/Coming off like a thin hat/Where strong wind at

It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired. In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President [Ronald] Reagan, who called them "freedom fighters."

Ironically, many of people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.