Facts Quotes - Page 16

• I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.

  Dolly Parton

  Truth, Honesty, Real

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

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• A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Angel, Protect And Serve, Heaven

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

  O. Henry

  Art, Directors, Boards

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.671, Delphi Classics

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• I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Growing Up, Character, Thinking

  "From 'Pale Force' to 'My Boys' Region native Jim Gaffigan keeps comedy career chuggin' with new sitcom". "Post-Tribune" Newspaper, December 15, 2006.

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• The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well.

  Germaine Greer

  Strong, Communication, Community

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• I don't want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.

  Robert Benchley

  Thinking, House, Generations

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.151, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

  Robert Benchley

  Criticism, Sometimes, Results

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.178, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

  Edmund Burke

  Witty, Knowledge, Important

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• The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Life, Fiction, Impossibility

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

  Bertrand Russell

  Observation, Reasoning

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.465, Routledge

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• When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.

  Bertrand Russell

  Party, Thinking, Political

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Stupid, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Devil, Matter, World

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.119, Routledge

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• It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Teaching, Men

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.221, Psychology Press

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• I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.

  Doris Lessing

  Black And White, Men, Differences

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.

  Doris Lessing

  Overlooked

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5”, p.222, Vintage

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• In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ... in times of war we revert, as a species, to the past, and are permitted to be brutal and cruel. It is for this reason, and of course others, that a great many people enjoy war. But this is one of the facts about war that is not often talked about.

  Doris Lessing

  War, Past, People

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• At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Events, Population

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5”, p.198, Vintage

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• I woke up one morning, and I couldn't move my arm. It was the oddest thing, the paralysis. I called up a friend and said, "I think I've had a stroke," and, in fact, that's what my doctor told me. It wasn't terrible, but it was enough to scare me. Now I think about death all the time. I have my death arm, my right arm.

  Doris Lessing

  Morning, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. November 19, 2013.

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• I can't get past the fact that food is coming out of my wife's breasts. What was once essentially an entertainment center has now become a juice bar.

  Paul Reiser

  Past, Wife, Bars

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• Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large numbers. ... he is only minimally interested in the proper intellectual significance of images and objects. Such people are not really intellectuals, but visuals ... A visual is more interested in style than in content ... A visual does not feel a rioting crowd being machine-gunned by the police, he simply sees a brilliant news photograph.

  John Fowles

  War, Numbers, People

  "The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas". Book by John Fowles, 1964.

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• Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Suffering, Assuming

  Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

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• I think a lot of people have unreasonable expectations because they never stop to consider what life actually has to offer them. They're always looking for some great epiphany from the skies. They never stop to consider the fact which human beings find hardest to recognize: "Maybe I'm not worthy of an epiphany.

  Robertson Davies

  Thinking, Sky, People

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Growing Up, Pain, Father

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.15, 谷月社

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• If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.

  John Stuart Mill

  Father, Training, May

  John Stuart Mill (2013). “Autobiography”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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