Quotes About Facts

I don't deny anything until I know," was the response. "I don't know that there is a supernatural force; therefore," and he shrugged his slender, stooping shoulders, "I work only from a material basis. If this manuscript states facts, then

Historical reality has two sides. One is made ??up of facts, events, material realities, and one of the ideas, images and dreams.

Only facts will help you escape -- not hopes, fears or wishes.

I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective.

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.

Where in the past I could assume that the U.S. government would put its foot down on the side of democratic institutions and values, Trump's foot has been fully engaged in kicking America's allies, the independent press, federal prosecutors, immigrant families, and the notion—stressed to most children at an early age—that facts matter.

Ninety-nine percent of the things that ninety-nine percent of the people do are entirely predictable, when you have a few lead facts. Drunks, maniacs and pregnant women are the customary exceptions. Everyone has the suspicion he is utterly unique. But we are a herd animal, and we all turn to face into the wind.

These are our realities, and, like our ancestors of fifty thousand years ago, if we--as a species rather than as an individual--are uninformed or careless, or indifferent to the Facts (emphasis mine), then survival as a species is in serious doubt. ~~John D. MacDonald, Reading for Survival. c. 1987

Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?' 'For fun?' 'Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.

There's an old adage in bad trial lawyering that when you don't have the facts, do a lot of yelling.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

Facts are in logical space and independent of one another and can only be stated or asserted.

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

And sometimes you need too much to know the facts, and so humbly and stupidly you stay.

The truth is more important than the facts. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867–1959)

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.

Don't freak out until you know the facts.

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

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

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.