Facts Quotes

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.

It would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald Trump all the time.

In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.

I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.

Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

You can't listen to the news. You have to go with the facts. You need to use a logical approach and have the discipline to apply it. You must be able to control your emotions.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of Reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

Facts are true whether or not you believe them.

I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.

The fatal futility of Fact.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.