(3897 quotes found)
“The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.”
Aristotle
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.”
William S. Burroughs
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
Maya Angelou
“Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid”
Dave Barry
“I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.”
Christina G. Rossetti
“Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory”
Stephen Jay Gould
“We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.”
Jessamyn West
