Facts Quotes

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.

Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.

When you’re not patient, you start complaining. And the fact that you’re complaining is a sign that you’re not grateful.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

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.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!

Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.

You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'. It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.