Top 216 Factual Quotes & Sayings

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.

That claim was not intended to be a factual statement.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can mean anything and nothing is certain.

I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.

The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.

The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

[about tabloid magazines] Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn't make it factual. To buy it is to feed it.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.

The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem factual by comparison.

Advocates of GMO labeling aren't seeking a warning label. We're simply asking for a factual, non-judgmental disclosure on the back of the package.

I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.

The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'

The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.

We must fight for liberal ideas like openness, but also about having a media that we believe in and that can sort between real news and facts and not-so-factual things.

The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."

It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.

I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

Why are we so addicted to factual knowledge? Why are we so uncomfortable with the unknown? Is it something about the anxiety of our time? Because of course that wasn't always the way. Even now the whole idea of the rational individual has been subject to question and yet we still cling to this idea of factual, rational knowledge being more valuable than whatever its opposite might be.

I've started to read more factual books, partly because I didn't go to university.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial.