Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabindranath Tagore

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

Pete Townshend

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

Peter Lilley

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Paula Rego

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

Paula Rego

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

Terry Pratchett

So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.

Terence McKenna

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

Terence McKenna

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

Terence McKenna

The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

Randall Munroe

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Shelby Foote

A fact is not a truth until you love it.

Seth

The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this.

Leonard Nimoy

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

Thomas A. Edison

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….

Simon Callow

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

Sharon Gless

I'm not unaware of the fact that probably my biggest audience is lesbians, and is probably the main reason why I've attained the success that I have,

Natalie Portman

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

Talcott Parsons

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Talcott Parsons

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Talcott Parsons

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

Talcott Parsons

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

Talcott Parsons

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

Leonard Cohen

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

Lisa Kleypas

Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.

Peter Kreeft

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

Pema Chodron

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

Peter Coyote

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

Scott Ritter

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.