Facts Quotes - Page 6

• One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Perseverance, Progress, Want

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Feelings, Evolution, Fit

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• Faith is the one power against which fear cannot stand. Day by day, as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no more room left for fear. This is the one great fact that no one should forget. Master faith and you will automatically master fear.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Spiritual, Mind, Rooms

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Errors, Long, Evil

  Thomas Aquinas (1975). “Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence”, p.266, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought

  Max Planck

  Mean, Science, Law

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• Here's good news: George W. Bush says that he is committed to fighting global warming. Yeah, well, he nipped that in the bud, didn't he? ... President Bush says he's really going to buckle down now and fight global warming. As a matter of fact, he announced today he's sending 20,000 troops to the sun

  David Letterman

  Fighting, President, Matter

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• I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.

  David Letterman

  Voting, Shepherds, Want

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• We must never lose sight of the fact that we must take part in the development, not only of ourselves but of all humanity... I want you to understand that there never was or has been or will be, in the minds of the founders, including myself, the thought of any reward any notice coming to us for this experiment in brotherly cooperation and comradeship, which we initiated and which has developed, not necessarily because of any efforts of ours, into one of the best regarded organizations in the Negro collegiate world.

  Jewel

  Sight, Organization, Effort

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• Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Children, Giving Up, Littles

  Gerald R. Ford (1973). “Selected speeches”, Desert Publications

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• Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Emancipation, Proclamation

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'

  Will Rogers

  Tombstone, Party, Government

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• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.

  Frank Knox

  Education, Art, Believe

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• I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Job, Microsoft, Problem

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.58, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people-and this is true whether or not they are well-educated-is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations-in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.

  Michael Moore

  Stupid, Intelligent, Differences

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• I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

  Jim Thorpe

  Athlete, Warrior, Careers

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• Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Numbers, Mind, Important

  Alexander von Humboldt (1814). “Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: Containing Researches Relative to the Geography of Mexico, the Extent of Its Surface, and Its Political Division Into Intendancies, the Physical Aspect of the Country, the Population, the State of Agriculture and Manufacturing and Commercial Industry, the Canals Projected Between the South Sea and Atlantic Ocean, the Crown Revenues, the Quantity of the Precious Metals which Have Flowed from Mexico Into Europe and Asia, Since the Discovery of the New Continent, and the Military Defence of New Spain”, p.133

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• What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.

  Walt Disney

  Real, Giving, Imagination

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• Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...

  Walt Disney

  Dream, America, Promise Of The Future

  YouTube Chanel "freedogshampoo"/ "Disneyland Opening Day - Part 2", www.youtube.com. April 17, 2007.

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• In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community...and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self.

  Pope Paul VI

  Lonely, America, Self

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• Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.

  Barbara

  Courage, Pain, Broken

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• . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Gratitude, Art, Attitude

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity."

  Erasmus Darwin

  Animal, Years, Grandfather

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• The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christian, Animal, Men

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• I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Father, Storm, Eras

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.219, Random House

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• Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.

  Pythagoras

  Character, Elements, Movement

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