Facts Quotes - page 45

We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else. (Paul Arden)
Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth. View quote
Rachel Kushner
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom. View quote
Rob Sheffield
Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery. View quote
Robert Zubrin
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips. View quote
Cynthia Ozick
Knowing a person isn't like knowing a string of facts. It's more like... a feeling. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be. View quote
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. View quote
Timothy D. Snyder
As Americans, we should be frightened - deeply afraid for the future of the nation. When good men and women can't speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when presidential ego and self-preservation are more important than national security - then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil. (William H. McRaven)
But frankly-may I so speak?-your CIA people's theory strikes me as a miserable bundle of random suspicions, a few separate facts strung together by an intricate structure of ad hoc theorizing, in which everyone is credited with enormous powers for intrigue. A much simpler view can be entertained with more common sense, and as a CIA employee you must be aware that, like all intelligence agencies, it lacks the faculty of common sense. View quote
Philip K. Dick
So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean. View quote
Frank Luntz
When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing. View quote
Frank Peretti
I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence. View quote
Hannah Fry
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 precisely because Biblical revelation is absolutely authoritative and perspicuous that the scientific facts, rightly interpreted, will give the same testimony as that of Scripture. There is not the slightest possibility that the facts of science can contradict the Bible. View quote
Henry M. Morris
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths. View quote
Hilary Mantel
Theories were a dime a dozen. The partition that separated science and wishful thinking was evidence: observations and firm facts. View quote
Charles Sheffield
Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts. View quote
Sean Covey
The Facts were right there waiting for me, hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest. (Ernest Klein)
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
Think about this - some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their duty. And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up once the fighting begins, unless - unless facts prove the operation wrong, as was the case in Vietnam. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain. View quote
Brenda Shoshanna
Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching. View quote
Alafair Burke