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#facts

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #facts




I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.


Criss Jami


#christianity #enemies #fabrications #facts #flattery

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.


Chuck Palahniuk


#life

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.


Stacy Schiff


#facts-and-ideas #history #myth #life

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.


Rashmi Bansal


#life

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.


Andrew Taylor Still


#facts #fail #failures #faulty #feet

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.


Hyman G. Rickover


#open-mindedness #nature

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


Ken Burns


#facts #i #music #photographs #research

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.


John Burroughs


#facts #imagination #imagine #one thing #thing

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.


Alfred de Vigny


#after #capacity #chain #could #events

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#general #general principles #leaves #principles #root






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