Facts Quotes - page 4

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid. (Herman Melville)
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. View quote
Celia Green
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. View quote
Victor Hugo
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. View quote
Thomas Sowell
To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to the preservation of a false order of facts. And this false consciousness has become embodied in the prevailing technical apparatus which in turn reproduces it. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending” analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts - that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. View quote
Sydney Smith
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head. (Mark Twain)
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. View quote
Mark Twain
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. View quote
Tryon Edwards
I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. View quote
Max Eastman
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds. View quote
Michael Faraday
There are no facts, only interpretations. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The logical picture of the facts is the thought. (3) View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being, as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe. View quote
Tony Blair
Facts are stubborn things. View quote
Ronald Reagan
set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts. (Mary Pope Osborne)
The facts are, as every Italian will admit, that the South is virtually a colony of the industrialised North. View quote
Norman Lewis
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. View quote
Charles Cooley
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the religions which they have outgrown... in this teaching as to the immortality of the soul and the life after death, Theosophy...does not put forward these great truths merely on the authority of some sacred book of long ago; in speaking of these subjects it is not dealing with pious opinions, or metaphysical speculations, but with solid, definite facts, as real and as close to us as the air we breathe or the houses we live in - facts of which many among us have constant experience - facts among which lies the daily work of some of our students, as will presently be seen. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater