Quotes Tagged "facts"

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.

We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.

They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

I don't believe that aliens exist, but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.

I am not pointing fingers, but rather pointing at the facts, as the facts point fingers regardless.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?

We always need a motivation, in order for us to meet our full potential at work.