Facts Quotes

We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts.

The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

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.

Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.

The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

Your God is the best God. In fact, he's the only God. All other Gods are ridiculous, made up rubbish. Not yours though. Yours is real.

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.

I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

When you conceive something in your mind, know it is a fact, and that there can be no question about its manifestation.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?

He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.