Facts Quotes

The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

To think is an act. To feel is a fact.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

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

Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.

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

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

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.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

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

A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

Go wherever the facts lead.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

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

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.