559 Facts Quotes for You to Enjoy

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online. Joichi Ito

History Internet Wikipedia Collectively About Online Facts Talked How Being Created

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. Jon Ronson

You Somebody Think Too Ways Carpet About Something Facts Instance Journalism Feel Academia Also Sort Course Courtroom Lot Get Going Quite Quite A Lot Different Happens Sweep Your Thesis Set Suit

This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground. Jonas Gahr Store

War History Ideology Reflect Stage Gone Framework Paradigm Kinds Facts New Major Armed Most Globe Ideological Ideologies Around Terror Does Huge Ground Connecting Resistance

Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts, well, trump his assertions, but his prejudiced views demonstrate a deep ignorance about Mexican immigrants in the United States. Jorge Ramos

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. Joseph Lancaster

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble. Joseph Rotblat

Life War Me My Life Enough Tremble Crisis All The Facts Only Facts Knew Missile Know Most Make Learned Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis Terrifying How October Were Close Did Moment Recently

Facts are often complicated. Josh Hawley

Complicated Facts Often

Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and ideas, and you reason your way forward to a story that pulls them together. With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood. Joshua Foer

You Together Writing Mind Thinking Way Backward Kind Ability Take Facts Raw Ideas End End Product Than Wood Problem-Solving Different Story Them Different Kind Product Requires Your Reason Forward Start Set

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time. Joshua Foer

Life Time Memories Experience Other Chronological Life Experiences Web Network Facts Integrating Accumulate Just Experiences Them

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not. Judy Smith

Truth Eyes Become Allegations Facts True Whether Public

Most of the time, you think the problem is not as big as it is - because it says something negative about you or your company or your leadership. Face the reality: The facts are not as you want them to be. Judy Smith

Time Leadership You Reality Problem Negative Face Big Think Says About Something Facts Most Because Want Them Your Company

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you. Julian Baggini

You Justice All The Facts Only Facts Front

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments. Julian Baggini

Result Free Argument Become Reflect Own Our Entirely Something Rather More Facts Freer Make Either Capacity Choices Assess

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah. Julius Wellhausen

King Judgment Brought Only Facts Within Issue Accordance Historical Reformation Movement Place Which Victorious Therefore Assign

The fascination with Judas has persisted despite the fact that there is no evidence of the hard facts of his life. Even the 'Iscariot' attached to him may be nothing more significant than a corruption of the name of the town from which he came. Justin Cartwright

Writing 'Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle' must have been a difficult task because there are no facts. Judas may quite possibly never have existed at all, and if he did, the Judas kiss may not have happened. Justin Cartwright

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage. Katharine Graham

Knowledge Political Would Unprecedented Sabotage Pursue Scheme Facts Had Failed Denied Led Surveillance Any As Far As Public Far

African Americans are concerned about the scourge of abortion in their community, and respond to related facts and figures. Large majorities agree that every life should have a chance, regardless of race, socioeconomic status or circumstance. Kellyanne Conway

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. Ken Burns

Music Research Way Photographs Composers Facts Scripts Use

To hell with facts! We need stories! Ken Kesey

Hell Facts Stories Need

Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves. Ken Liu

Wisdom History You Challenge Be True Rich Heritage Everybody Wikipedia Worlds Our Complex Characters Worthy More Facts Simplistic True Knowing Knows Real Question Historical Selves Than Articles Interesting Far Received Presented Imagine

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change. Kenneth Clarke

In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked. Kenneth Fisher

Time People Research Other Spending Spending Time Libraries Kind Promoted Facts Investors Idea Days Did Gain Worked Many Early Early Days

The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art. Kevin Young

Truth Art Reality Imagination Too Claims Absence Absent Facts Very Antithesis Artifice Hoax Substitute Form Which Means Acting Regularly

Facts Quotes

No more facts quotes