Fact Quotes

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward g...

But I'm afraid that it would be all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it.

Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—i...

Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an...

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so ha...

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions a...

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided out...

You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human pow...

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other.

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as fir...

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we...

We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' t...

Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; i...

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

So, Colonna, please demonstrate to our friends how it's possible to respect, or appear to respect, o...

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

He did not like saying it. To communicate a fact seemed always to lend it fuller existence.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most peopl...

What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, f...

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

A second marked characteristic of the Liberal in debate with the conservative is the tacit premise t...

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal form...

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again....

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and th...

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business ...

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—a...

He knew that the dread in these men’s minds was not of the fact, but of his naming it—as if the fact...

Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart e...

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been bel...

That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It se...

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my o...

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us..the worst part is we can't say...

In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream...

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact th...

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition th...

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a ...

My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my dec...

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chi...

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their cleares...

Each of you is a daughter of God. Reflect on all the wondrous meaning of that one paramount fact.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth tol...

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of t...

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation i...

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose...

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.

There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated fr...

Dead men's words are so much more powerful than those of the living

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be sw...

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Cousin-screwing. It is not totally safe. It raises the risk of birth defects slightly. But I was rea...

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bibl...

It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that thro...

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life...

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocabl...

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective...

We are off! And do we know it, not just because the world is yelling "Lift-off" in our ears, but bec...

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts....

Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there i...

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics...

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t...

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.