Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saul Kripke

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.

Lin Yutang

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

Thomas Aquinas

It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.

Leo Rosten

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

Lawrence M. Krauss

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

Lawrence Lessig

While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection.

Joseph Campbell

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

Karl Popper

I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.

Julie Garwood

As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me.” “So when's the wedding?” Ramsey asked.

Joshua Lederberg

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

Karl Barth

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

Julius Streicher

But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

Julius Streicher

I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you.

Kanye West

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

Kami Garcia

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

Kanye West

I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

Paul Tillich

Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.

Paul Theroux

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

Paul de Man

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Paul Dirac

A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . . The fact that there is an end to one's life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead.

Paul Davies

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.

Ovid

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

Paul Martin

The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts.

Paul McCartney

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

Rob Zombie

I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Richard Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Richelle Mead

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Richard Avedon

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

Russell Baker

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Umberto Eco

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.