Facts Quotes - page 12

Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may. (Aldo Leopold)
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. View quote
Finley Peter Dunne
So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. View quote
Ronald Reagan
A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I care about facts. I don't care about your feelings. View quote
Milo Yiannopoulos
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life. View quote
Mark Strand
The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of the chronic disease sucking the life out of our citizens and our economy - and, increasingly, the rest of the world. You name it, it's caused by sugar: heart disease, cancer, dementia, type 2 diabetes, depression, and even acne, infertility and impotence. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become. View quote
Mary Roach
But when we set out to understand somebody's inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories? View quote
Pascal Mercier
I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts. View quote
Ruth Gordon
On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you have to stop and double-check facts. (Sarah Pinborough)
And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. View quote
Stacy Schiff
If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy. View quote
Timothy D. Snyder
The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque. View quote
Philip K. Dick
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. View quote
Phyllis McGinley
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. View quote
Hans Eysenck
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. View quote
Hilary Mantel
Perhaps the greatest of the many fundamental changes which are inevitable for the man who studies the facts of life is that which is produced in his attitude towards death. This matter has been fully treated elsewhere; here I need state only that the knowledge of the truth about death robs it of all its terror and much of its sorrow, and enables us to see it in its true proportion and to understand its place in the scheme of our evolution. It is perfectly possible to learn to know about all these things instead of accepting beliefs blindly at second-hand, as most people do; and knowledge means power, security and happiness. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself - ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity - before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures. (Ben Goldacre)
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories. View quote
Ben Mezrich
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt. View quote
Isaac Marion
The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of comparing the facts of history with the distorted version promoted by biased secular historians. View quote
Gary DeMar