Not Accepting Facts Quotes & Sayings

I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be. — Jessica Valenti

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes. — B.F. Skinner

You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities. — Bruce Lee

But all that talk. All those confidences. He shuddered to think about it. At the time, though, he didn't know any better, and he was filled the gleeful lurching and teeth-chattering panic of early and undiagnosed love. — Jennifer DuBois

Hitler killed the Jews as much as the Jews killed themselves by not creating riots and violent opposition against Hitler. As a human race, we won't evolve until we start accepting these facts, instead of pointing fingers at one another and blaming those that we have allowed to gain power and maintain it. — Daniel Marques

Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable. — Paul Tillich

Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it. — Gene Wolfe

I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight. — Stephen Fry

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence. — Rosalynn Carter

Our megatechnic culture, based as it is on the strange supposition that subjective malice has no reality and that evils do not exist, except in the sense of reparable mechanical defects, has proved itself incompetent to take on such responsibilities. — Lewis Mumford

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead. — Malcolm Muggeridge

The difference between people is that we are all different. If we were the same we would be boring, dull, not that fun. We need to be different if we weren't what type of world would we have? — Lindsey Johnson

I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold. — Terrence Howard

The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation. — Sandra L. Schneider

My hobbies have varied over the years. There were a whole set of new ones before I got married. Now I spend as much time with my wife, who is my best friend. — Jason Bateman

When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything. — Simon Sinek

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory. — Arthur Eddington

The only hope you have is to accept the fact that youre already dead — Ronald Speirs

Lewis famously advocated a metaphysical methodology based on subjecting rival hypotheses to a cost-benefit analysis. Usually there are two kinds of cost associated with accepting a metaphysical thesis. The first is accepting some kind of entity into one's ontology, for example, abstracta, possibilia, or a relation of primitive resemblance. The second is relinquishing some intuitions, for example, the intuition that causes antedate their effects, that dispositions reduce to categorical bases, or that facts about identity over time supervene on facts about instants of time. It is taken for granted that abandoning intuitions should be regarded as a cost rather than a benefit. — James Ladyman

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult.
I took some time out for life. — James L. Brooks

You can't teach an old hater new truths. — Dane Cook

What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to acknowledge the hard science, irrefutable science, of climate change. The president, while readily accepting the facts, has done far too little to alter them. How long are we, are you, prepared to wait? — David Remnick

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must accept the fact that others don't see what you do. — Louise Bourgeois

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence. — Ayn Rand

A Mediterranean city is really my culture. — Zinedine Zidane

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries. — Maya Angelou

By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success. — Susan Jeffers

Gradually, we have become each other's weather. — Paul Zweig

We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts. — Sean M. Carroll

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. — Michael Bassey

The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: But I didn't mean this! — Ayn Rand

Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations. — Michael Jackson

EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted .. accept that fact .. it's true. — Rhonda Byrne

We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it. — Loretta Young

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others. — James G. Frazer

We begin by accepting that we have problems, that we're miles away from perfect. But some people take this too far: they turn acceptance of the world into an excuse for passivity in the face of their own failings, and even in the face of evil. Yes, you have to accept some unpleasant, upsetting, tragic facts about life. But you also have to accept your responsibility to act in the world. — Eric Greitens

In my case, with my law degree, I was able to be an investment banker, in-house counsel, op-ed columnist, and author. No other degree except for the JD offers so many possibilities. More than knowing the law, the JD degree gives you a more invaluable skill set - the ability to think in a structured way to get to a solution. This type of skill set can be leveraged in almost any field. The only limit is your imagination. — Ann K. Levine

She felt like she was leaving home, and had no idea when she'd be back again, if ever. — Danielle Steel

Accepting the facts is always tough, so we search for forgiveness to this universe everyday to break the shackles, hurt is a prison and I from a very young young age refused to be held prisoner or even conform. — Aidan McNally

Jon Glass had vaulted over the fence and was now approaching a horse chosen by some sort of weird horse-knowledge method, or possibly because it was shiny. — Sarah Rees Brennan

My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - "
"I am NOT naming our child Buford ... — Cassandra Clare