Facts Quotes

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and persona...

The facts are always less than what really happened.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo...

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again, you must...

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so conc...

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it ...

Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts fo...

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar w...

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which ...

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Re...

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use t...

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for hi...

I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for...

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what mus...

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the c...

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

Anything that just adds information you can't use is plain dangerous. Anyway, there's too much of ev...

But these notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn't their object. They are merely...

Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and ...

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show ...

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conce...

Statements of fact are after all statements, which presumes a number of questionable judgements: tha...

All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and in...

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they...

I grow daily to honor facts more and more and theory less and less.

Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someon...

Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its tell...

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and peop...

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at leas...

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four mill...

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of th...

Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, ...

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to b...

At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit t...

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I re...

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own not a...

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction...

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nat...

She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and ...

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into th...

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see fr...

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not...

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unex...

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ough...

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matt...

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you...

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to piece...

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries h...

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of ...

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he i...

Isn't there a flaw in the logic of that phrase - speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn't...

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely iso...

Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts...

We have no authoritative figure, no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow whom we all listen to and tr...

There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the br...

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they fa...

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

New Rule: America must stop bragging it's the greatest country on earth, and start acting like it. I...

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and r...

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal intro...

If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in l...

A man may live to be as old as Methuselah,’ said Mr. Filer, ‘and may labour all his life for the ben...

Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distort...

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control a...

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Lord Peter Wimsey: Facts, Bunter, must have facts. When I was a small boy, I always hated facts. Tho...

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for fa...

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their addres...

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will co...

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in suc...

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

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

The truth is more important than the facts.