#facts

It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'Its a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business ofice, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#facts-of-life #age

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#die #beauty

I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives. ↗

— Seymour Simon

#exploring #facts #kids #teaching #change

I just wanna say nothing is permanent in this world, only change ↗

— Jayson Engay

#facts-of-life #change

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself? ↗

— David Levithan

#facts #love #dating

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#facts #dreams

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy. ↗

— Criss Jami

#christianity #enemies #fabrications #facts #flattery

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#everyone #facts #his #opinion #own

There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#ideas #intelligence #intelligence

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. ↗

— Stacy Schiff

#facts-and-ideas #history #myth #life