Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

Scott Ritter

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

Saul Kripke

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.

Lin Yutang

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

Thomas Aquinas

It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.

Terry Pratchett

So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.

Thomas A. Edison

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….

Simon Callow

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

Sharon Gless

I'm not unaware of the fact that probably my biggest audience is lesbians, and is probably the main reason why I've attained the success that I have,

Natalie Portman

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

Talcott Parsons

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Talcott Parsons

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Talcott Parsons

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

Talcott Parsons

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

Talcott Parsons

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

Talib Kweli

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

Suzan-Lori Parks

And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.

Tony Randall

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University

Tony Abbott

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

Joshua Lederberg

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

Karl Barth

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

Julius Streicher

But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

Julius Streicher

I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you.

Kanye West

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

Kami Garcia

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

Kanye West

I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

Paul Tillich

Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.

Paul Theroux

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

Paul de Man

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Paul Dirac

A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . . The fact that there is an end to one's life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead.