Quotes about facts
facts affair process
The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. Eric Hoffer
facts eating foolish
It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating. James Beard
facts complaining complainers
The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot. James Allen
facts propaganda disunity
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Henry A. Wallace
facts authority abandon
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings. Leonardo da Vinci
facts stories surprise
I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out. Lee Child
facts foolish scribbles
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. John Updike
facts essentials observation
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures. James Jeans
facts events blame
Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming. James Hansen
facts
There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything! Libba Bray
facts movement free-love
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground. Friedrich Engels
facts silent theory
Without a theory the facts are silent. Friedrich August von Hayek
facts mystery inexplicable
An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery. Frederick Soddy
facts argument absence
...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found. George Gaylord Simpson
facts moral manners
The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade. George Gilder
facts human-condition climbers
Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition. Jon Krakauer
facts sides making-money
I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact. Johnny Carson
facts blame born
The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist. Luigi Pirandello
facts world totality
The world is the totality of facts, not of things Ludwig Wittgenstein
facts cases determine
The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.
facts world divides
The world divides into facts.
facts doe world
The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.
facts logical
A logical picture of facts is a thought.
facts world made
The world is made up of facts, not things.
facts knows ifs
In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect. Nigella Lawson
facts wikipedia incredibles
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast. Nicholson Baker
facts connections planets
So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet... Nikola Tesla
facts meaning-of-life life-has-no-meaning
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning. Niels Bohr
facts momentum linux
A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free. Nat Friedman
facts obvious
Things always become obvious after the fact Nassim Nicholas Taleb
facts guy wrote
The guy that wrote it is a nitwit. He should get his facts straight.
facts information separate
The information is out there. You just have to separate the facts from the wives' tales.
facts fish giving life parenting telling
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.