Facts Quotes

If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

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.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength.

The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.

The fact is that woman was taken from a rib.

In fact I've probably never seen such a wide moat.

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

You have just got to face the facts, don't you? I face it head-on. I knew what I was coming in to. I didn't make the impact I hoped for and I believed in.

My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control

We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.

The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.

Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.

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.

A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen.

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.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.

The facts of life are conservative.

High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.

Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric.

Facing facts is always empowering.

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.