Factual Quotes - Page 6

• Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

  Jane Goodall

  Spiritual, Demand, Proof

  Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman (1999). “Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Needs, World, Vantage Point

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• The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Campaigns

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Fantasy, Life Is

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• Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

  Tom Rachman

  Editors, Laughing, Hypocrisy

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• The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sky, Steps, Doctrine

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• ... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Character, Joy

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• German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

  Paul Celan

  Beauty, Truth, Poetry

  Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.15, Psychology Press

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• Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.

  Louis Pasteur

  Wings, Giving, Imagination

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• To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Reality, Significant, Multiplicity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Battle, Fiction

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• The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Men, Numbers, Legendary

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• Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sky, Blue, Law

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• The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Wise, Reality, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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• To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Jesus, Like Love, Different

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• The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.

  Anagarika Govinda

  Journey, Reality, Events

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• I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.

  Irving Stone

  Motivation, Writing, Heart

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• Sex may be a little more factual than love. You know whether it's good or bad. You know whether you liked it or not. You're not going to change your mind about it ten years later.

  Iggy Pop

  Sex, Love You, Years

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• The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.

  Thomas Sowell

  Cheer, Hate, Hero

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.398, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life Changing, Reading, Men

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual.

  Mort Sahl

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Either one is factually equal, and consequently morally equal as well; on the other hand, if one is morally equal, there is no reason why one should contest factual equality of rights or simply refuse to grant them.

  Adolf Hitler

  Hands, Rights, Reason Why

  Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com

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• There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one hand, there's value in hearing what our government has to say about its actions and vision for the future. On the other, news organizations are responsible for the factual hygiene of their product. In some cases, those two imperatives just aren't compatible.

  Erik Wemple

  Hygiene, Organization, Two

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Factual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by witnesses and depends upon testimony; it exists only to the extent that it is spoken about, even if it occurs in the domain of privacy. It is political by nature.

  Hannah Arendt

  People, Political, Truth Is

  "The Portable Hannah Arendt".

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• Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.

  Bernard Haisch

  Cutting, Examination, Information

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