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the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Facts'

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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley, English Scientist (1825-1895)
I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
Lee Iacocca, American Businessman (1924-  )
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge, English Clergyman (1860-1954)
We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
Joichi Ito, Japanese Businessman (1966-  )
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
Shirley Jackson, American Novelist (1919-1965)
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James, American Philosopher (1842-1910)
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James, American Philosopher (1842-1910)
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell, American Poet (1914-1965)
I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
Karl Jaspers, German Psychologist (1883-1969)
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
Denis Johnson, German Writer
You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.
Denis Johnson, German Writer
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Lyndon B. Johnson, American President (1908-1973)
I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
Mary Harris Jones, American Activist (1837-1930)
I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American Politician (1949-2008)
If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
Bob Kane, American Artist (1916-1998)
There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
Garry Kasparov, Azerbaijani Celebrity (1963-  )
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
Walter Kaufmann, German Philosopher (1921-1980)
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Elia Kazan, American Director (1909-2003)
Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.
Patrick J. Kennedy, American Politician (1967-  )
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy, American President (1917-1963)
 
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