Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Steven Soderbergh

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

Raymond Cruz

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

Tom Tancredo

In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.

Tom Stoppard

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

Tom Paulin

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

Tim LaHaye

But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there's only one Savior.

Ron Suskind

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

Ron Fournier

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

Rupert Holmes

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

Todd Duncan

Fact: If you don’t have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.

Steve Reich

As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.

Steve Schmidt

Great Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that everyone`s entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. I`m not sure that`s true anymore.

Stephen Crane

The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Thomas Carlyle

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Thomas Carlyle

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

Sigmund Freud

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

Shawn Amos

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

Steven Levy

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

Robert Burns

But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

Robert Browning

But facts are facts and flinch not.

Robbie Williams

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak

Richard Attenborough

I prefer fact to fiction.

Tariq Ramadan

There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.

Sydney J. Harris

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.