Facts Quotes

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Attitudes are much more important than facts.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ﾃつｭ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws. Why would something so integral to human nature require such vigilant legal protection?

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel— Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat—-I just don't think about it.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin g.

There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.

The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

You can't argue with facts. You're not entitled to your own facts.

Education is not the piling on of learning information data facts skills or abilities that's training or instruction but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

History is but a confused heap of facts.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.