Facts Quotes

There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter than the former.

You're girls!' he shouted as if the fact had totally eluded him until then.

Yeah, you're probably right," I admitted and slowly pulled myself out from underneath the covers. "You know, I really wish you'd catch onto the fact that I'm always right.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport.

[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.

Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.

Facts cling to photographs like dust.

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact.

There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

If any other religious cult knew so few basic facts about its own seminal beliefs as the liberal cult does about Joe McCarthy, Janet Reno would gas them.

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

Blacks have a special history, since they were enslaved and were here as early as the first Americans. I hate to sound like a liberal but these are facts. That makes blacks a special group.

Science is something that you have facts. They can be tested. They can be checked. Heterosexual AIDS, another one.

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

I love the fact that fashion always changes, and I hate the fact that it always changes.

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.

In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.

It's crucial we know the facts and science, but it's naïve to rely on them alone to build a movement for change.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

The fact that the talks are resuming is a big positive. But it's going to be a slow process.

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

[people] very fact that it's decentralized makes it literally impossible to try to hack or rig the results.

They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?