Facts Quotes - page 14

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case. (Howard Nemerov)
The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened. View quote
Howard Nemerov
The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read! View quote
Ralph Chaplin
Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them. View quote
Reginald Rose
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts. View quote
David Seabury
Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly opposite-the reason we have so much is simply because we discard things so readily. We replace the old in return for something that will serve us better. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage. View quote
Dodie Smith
I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them. View quote
Dodie Smith
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself. View quote
Sonny Perdue
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. View quote
Edward Thorndike
We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts. (Tavis Smiley)
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. View quote
David Strauss
You do not define the First Amendment. It defines you. And it is bigger than you. That's how freedom works. It also demands you do your homework. Again and again, I hear gun owners say, how can we believe anything the anti-gun media says when they can't even get the facts right? For too long, you have swallowed manufactured statistics and fabricated technical support from anti-gun organizations that wouldn't know a semi-auto from a sharp stick. And it shows. You fall for it every time. View quote
Charlton Heston
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. View quote
Amy Waldman
Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success. View quote
Angela Ahrendts
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable. View quote
Abraham Robinson
These are facts, these are not imaginary things. View quote
Ayad Allawi
I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts. View quote
Bill Ackman
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game. View quote
Blake Edwards
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies. View quote
Brendan Gill
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts. (Bryant H. McGill)
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. View quote
Chauncey Wright
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. View quote
Caleb Cushing
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. View quote
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk. View quote
Debbie Wasserman Schultz