Top 1200 Facts Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I've learned... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

I don’t like facts, because facts get in the way of my feelings.

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

It's not facts that hurt people, it's their attitude towards facts.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.

When issues emerge that might harm a campaign, like the Clinton e-mails, you have to get all the facts out right away, but not before you have all the facts.

A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.

Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

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

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

With handball, you have soft facts but not hard facts. The shot is wide, and then suddenly, it's a penalty.

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

I'm not a fan of the facts. Facts change; my opinion never does.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number of facts. ... Theories are only hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much benignly misguided as they are intentionally and willfully ignorant of the facts of reproduction. That lends itself very well to them being ideologically driven and carrying out agendas that, if they were to be really honest about the facts, would be a tougher sell.

If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting.

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.

It's very rare to find a place where news itself has a political bent. Normally, let's say in the U.K. for instance, newspapers might explicitly support one party or the other, but television is just straight-up facts that are not influenced by any party from either side. In South Africa we try to maintain the same thing. Unfortunately, the government sometimes intervenes, but for the most part, the facts are the facts.

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts.

My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts.

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

From what I can tell, pollsters are generally fairly stick-to-the-facts folks. They deal in facts and statistics.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thought that is true. But the scientist will surely not recognize something which depends on men's varying states of mind to be the firm foundation of science.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.