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Facts Quotes

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real Picture Quote #1

Facts do not convey truth. That’s a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination Picture Quote #1

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts Picture Quote #1

There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own Picture Quote #1

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit Picture Quote #1

Personally, I don’t deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don’t see much difference in the behavior of men and women Picture Quote #1

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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable Picture Quote #1

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind’s roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to Picture Quote #1

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them Picture Quote #1

It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you’re just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics Picture Quote #1

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts Picture Quote #1

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes Picture Quote #1

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After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of Picture Quote #1

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination Picture Quote #1

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think Picture Quote #1

Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don’t go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut Picture Quote #1

What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself Picture Quote #1

He didn’t think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you’re planted Picture Quote #1

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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you Picture Quote #1

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don’t do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out Picture Quote #1

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note Picture Quote #1

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated Picture Quote #1

Just because you didn’t speak the facts out loud didn’t erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie Picture Quote #1

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away Picture Quote #1

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Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts Picture Quote #1

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts Picture Quote #1

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts Picture Quote #1

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books Picture Quote #1

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think Picture Quote #1

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You’ll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts Picture Quote #1

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You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real (Facts Quotes) Facts do not convey truth. That’s a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination (Facts Quotes) In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts (Facts Quotes) There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own (Facts Quotes) The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit (Facts Quotes) Personally, I don’t deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don’t see much difference in the behavior of men and women (Facts Quotes) Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable (Facts Quotes) Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind’s roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to (Facts Quotes) No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them (Facts Quotes) It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you’re just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics (Facts Quotes) As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts (Facts Quotes) The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes (Facts Quotes) After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of (Facts Quotes) There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination (Facts Quotes) We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think (Facts Quotes) Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don’t go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut (Facts Quotes) What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself (Facts Quotes) He didn’t think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you’re planted (Facts Quotes) You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you (Facts Quotes) Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don’t do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out (Facts Quotes) With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note (Facts Quotes) If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated (Facts Quotes) Just because you didn’t speak the facts out loud didn’t erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie (Facts Quotes) For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away (Facts Quotes) Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts (Facts Quotes) Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts (Facts Quotes) The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts (Facts Quotes) There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books (Facts Quotes) The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think (Facts Quotes) Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You’ll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts (Facts Quotes)

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