Facts Quotes

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

More and more facts coming out about Osama bin Laden. You know, he never sleeps in the same place two nights in a row, just like Clinton.

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

. . . well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers.

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.

I looked at the fact that people were in such financial trouble I said well people are broke because they want to be.

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.

For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants.

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

The idealist regards facts as provisional.