Facts Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

I like the fact people consider me unique, one of a kind.

I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

hat's just a fact of life. So I've taken music into my life and it's gotten into my blood to the point where even when I am alone, I've got something to hang onto.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

It's not that we don't have talent in our country; the talent is, in fact, not required today.

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.

I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.

Falling in love is like death... they are both facts

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

Concepts antedate facts.

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.