T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.”
Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
“The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.”
Source: The practice of psychotherapy
“The ‘facts’ of our existence often have the tire tracks of our ‘fiction’ imprinted all over them. And just as the ‘facts’ begin to raise themselves out of the dirt, we slam the truck into reverse.”
“The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.”
“The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates appear "suddenly" in the first fossil ferrous strata (Cambrian) of the earth with their distinct specializations indicating that they were all created almost at the same time.”
“The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.”
Source: Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery
“The facts of science can be altered by credibility.”
“The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings
“The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.”
“The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.”
“The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.”
Source: Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986
“The facts of this world will never satisfy the human heart, but what we give each other can, when it holds love.”
Source: Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.”
Source: Backward Glances: People and Events from Inside and Out
“The facts related in this book will convince many open-minded non-Catholics that the authenticity of Fatima is at least possible. If this can be said of outsiders, how much more convincing should the story be for Catholics? And yet, even as the story moves unbelievers towards belief, it seems to have the opposite effect on certain Vatican officials. Ironically, some of the people now least likely to believe in Fatima are among those who should be the most likely. Beliefs once central to the Catholic faith are now being abandoned not by the faithful who remain in the pews, but by some of the highest authorities in the Church. (page ix)”
Source: The Devil's Final Battle
“The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context”
Source: What is History?
“The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.”
Source: Public Opinion
“The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.”
Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
“The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the historical character of the perceiving organ. Both are not simply natural; they are shaped by human activity, and yet the individual perceives himself as receptive and passive in the act of perception.”
Source: Critical Theory: Selected Essays
“The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.”
Source: Geological Sketches
“The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!”
Source: The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy
“The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.”
“The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.”
“The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.”
“The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.”
“The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.”
“The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.”
“The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.”
Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.”
“The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.”
Source: Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer
“The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind”
Source: Creative meditation and multi-dimensional consciousness
“The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.”
Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
“The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.”
“The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.”
Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves
“The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.”
“The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.”
“The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“The faculty of vision can vary from person to person. On the other hand, we can rely on what our reason tells us because that is the same for everyone”
Source: Sophie’s World
“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.”
Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course
“The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason.
I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.”
“The faded glittering in his eyes is like a falling star on a dull autumn's day.”
“The faded lime-colored building was, like so many other residential locations in the area, a snapshot out of time, as if the occupant had simply walked away one day. Blooms of mold seemed strung together by webs lacing the exterior—constellations marked by Mud dauber high-rises and sticky spider holes.”
Source: Abandoned Sulphur, Louisiana
“The fading blue of yesterdays sky is reminding of the hopeless love I told the moon about you.”
“The Fading Game by Stewart Stafford
Though your life was stolen from me,
I greedily wanted—and want—more.
Death made us necessary strangers,
And you, hostage to a timepiece fog.
Pain’s screams in the kettle’s whistle—
The brittle choreography of survivor’s guilt,
Self-loathing: I had let you flee my memory,
Your voice relapsed to white noise in life’s static.
Assuming my agitated reaction made you recoil,
As you faded as soon as you had arrived,
The desire to connect was overridden
by mutual bartering for a wary ceasefire.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.”
Source: Super Sad True Love Story
“The faerie queen's compassion was even more frightening than her anger.”
Source: Auralict
“The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn”
Source: The Onion Girl
“The faerie's creamery was not too deep, happily, or at least it did not feel so; a chimneylike skylight cut into the stone roof admitted the warm gold-green light of the forest. Given the faerie's size, the workspace was expansive--- even Wendell, the tallest among us, did not need to duck--- with a hard-packed earthen floor and an array of shelves, some of which held blocks of butter wrapped in paper and twine. In the middle of the workshop was the butter churn, beside which was a tin bucket of milk with condensation forming on the side--- which I think is what the faerie had been worrying about, for she immediately rushed over to it and carried it into her cellar. The air was cool, on the edge of cold, and the smell of the place made my mouth water. Not only of butter, but thyme and lavender, strawberries and honey, which the faerie used to flavor some of the blocks. Those on the nearest shelf had leaves tucked beneath the twine--- basil, I think.”
Source: Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales