#facts

I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#cut #dried #end #every #facts

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life. ↗

— Mark Strand

#actual life #course #externals #facts #his

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. ↗

— David Friedrich Strauss

#birth #cast #christ #doubts #eternal

Facts are many, but the truth is one. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#many #truth #truth is

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#arrange #believe #benefit #eager #easy

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies. ↗

— Brendan Gill

#butterflies #cloud #cram #facts #full

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information? ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#certainly #economics #expected #facts #give

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#both #clinic #come #desire #disciplined

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#discovery #existing #facts #never #secret

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force. ↗

— Téa Obreht

#secrets #life