#facts

I hate to think life is just facts and laws. ↗

— Ang Lee

#hate #i #just #laws #life

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#fact #facts #get #ideology #innovative

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#because #business #cannot #communicators #corporate

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#facts #knowledge #knowledge is power #knows #man

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accept #authority #basic #calls #credibility

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#always #because #corpus #facts #including

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. ↗

— Paul Martin

#celebrate #ceremonies #charter #couples #court

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#facts #may #principles #proceed #recede

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#argument #armed #blithe #calls #come

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#facts #imaginations #people #society #solid