All Quotes By Tag: Facts
“It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?”
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“The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities—the truth isn’t.”
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“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.”
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“But facts, remembered or not, are all, alas, still facts”
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“The arch of history may be long, but it bends away from reality.”
“The arch of history may be long, but it never bends away from reality.”
“While facts do kill ignorance, ignoring facts does not kill them.”
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“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.”
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“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
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“Backing up your argument with unnamed sources, rumored facts and hearsay only backs your view and your professional reputation into a corner. Argue the facts with validity, authority and substantial proof or walk away. It is ok to say you don’t know and it can serve your reputation better than sharing what you can’t prove.”
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“Just because an eloquent, articulate and well-spoken person is sharing something, does not make what they are saying, true. Just because someone can relay information with an engaging, exciting or enticing delivery, does not mean what is being said is fact. Deciding what is true based on only emotion and not connecting with logic, looking up facts and researching for the proof behind it, can be very dangerous. Back it up before you buy into it. ”
“Feelings can be real but fickle…When we speak based on facts, not on our feelings alone, we temper and restrict our comments before hitting send…[G]ood communicators confirm their feelings with facts.”
“A professor once told me: Sir, you are insane! In which I replied: Sir, I am just eccentrically very normal !”
“People keeps on complaining, but they’re not doing anything about the things that they’re complaining about.”