189 quotes found
“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.”
“Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge.”
“What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.”
“Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.”
“Anything that just adds information you can't use is plain dangerous. Anyway, there's too much of everything of this kind, that's come home to me, too much history and culture to keep track of, too...”
“FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Intelligent people speaks based on facts. Intelligent people speaks based on knowledge. Intelligent people don't make a fool of themselves by assuming. Intelligent people seeks Tr...”
“Sometimes we don't get second chances. Sometimes things just end.”
“With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth.”
“Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.”
“The world is not a great place because racist people come with a race type of agenda, and it don't make the world great, it makes it worst than ever.”
“If we love each other without creating a race war, people wouldn't get hurt that much, and feelings too.”
“She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.”
“A religion deeply rooted in theology, is never above skepticism hinged upon the twin pillars; of reason & facts.”
“Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not, depending on the tide. History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, i...”
“Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the ...”
“It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered to be the observable facts!”
“Just because you deny facts and science doesn't mean they aren't true”
“The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”
“Facts are never as salient as feelings.”
“Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.”
