Quotes About Facts

La escuela impide la difusión de verdades esencial.

Such facts cannot be perceived within educated circles if they hope to retain respectability.

Of course, it was the United States and Israel that had rejected diplomacy and the PLO that had been offering compromise for years, but Lewis's reversal of the facts was quite normal and unchallenged in the mainstream.

in order to find truth, one must be ready to give up those subjective preferences in favor of objective facts. And facts are best discovered through logic, evidence, and science.

Beliefs cannot change a fact, no matter how sincerely they are held. (Someone can sincerely believe the world is flat, but that only makes that person sincerely mistaken.)

All truths are absolute truths.

The past has happened, and it can only happen the way it happened.

We were kept busy learn­ing. We had a mil­lion facts to re­mem­ber.

Little voice gives us the facts. Big voice gives us the meaning—or at least a character's subjective interpretation of the events.

Humility is well and good but facts persevere beyond the shadow of one's own feelings," Ackbar says. "You saved Captain Antilles. You helped us capture two high-value Imperial targets—General Jylia Shale, and Palpatine's adviser Yupe Tashu—and confirm the deaths of two others: Moff Valco Pandion and slaver Arsin Crassus." The way Ackbar says that word slaver—it drips with rage and condescension.

Unhealthy societies quashed truth-tellers, hid facts, and curtailed debate (often at the end of a sword or rifle). Information, as the saying went, wanted to be free.

If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

Craftsmen and artisans created items that were brittle rumors compared with his father's iron facts.

Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness, one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure.

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

Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told.

Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction.

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -- second only to American political campaigns -- the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.

Drawing upon my days as a litigation attorney, I told Anna that cases and confrontational situations are "won on facts": "Stick to the facts. Lay out the facts with suggested solutions in plain and simple terms and in a calm voice, which would win over some board members and, in time, your CEO and COO.

Prose is subject to the polemic. The academicians can endlessly debate, defend, advance and argue over little facts. However, a tale is not so subject to debate. A story simply is. It conveys experience.

Therefore, do not attempt to collect a lot of facts, in order to impress others or to obtain one degree after another. The Archons disguise facts so that they appear to be wisdom. What you need in order to strengthen yourself against all forms of Archontic attack, is living knowledge.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

What is faith? Is it merely assent to facts?