Oswald Chambers Quotes

There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand.

The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts.

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

No one will ever know the complete truth.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious—just dead wrong.

One of the most admirable things about history is, that almost as a rule we get as much information out of what it does not say as we get out of what it does say.… history consists of two equal parts; one of these halves is statements of fact, the other half is inference, drawn from the facts. To the experienced student of history there are no difficulties about this; to him the half which is unwritten is as clearly and surely visible, by the help of scientific inference, as if it flashed and flamed in letters of fire before his eyes. When the practiced eye of the simple peasant sees the half of a frog projecting above the water, he unerringly infers the half of the frog which he does not see. To the expert student in our great science, history is a frog; half of it is submerged, but he knows it is there, and he knows the shape of it.

It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.

There's no way to know exactly what someone's dealing with, no matter how open you are. You're just never going to know everything.

Our phones don't just keep us in touch with the world; they're also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets.

There are lot of shades about me that people don't know. There are many things people don't know. I don't know if people will like me or not.

I hate the fact that people can judge based on something that isn't fully given to them. Like, this isn't the full product.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.

Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.