Quotes About Facts

Political debate is often about how to identify and characterize the facts relevant to the controversy in question.

When we place our immediate conflicts in the territory of an archetypal story we can better see the nature of our problems and find solutions that bring creative imagination to bear in the realm of hard facts and hardening dilemmas.

For history and for science facts are self-evident and are the subject-matter of these studies, but for philosophy they are the most puzzling things imaginable, and when they are really discovered its part is played.

Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated statements about it.

Wikipedia is the best thing ever.

Rationality is the application of reason to form beliefs based on facts and evidence, instead of guesswork, opinions, and feelings. That is to say, the rational thinker wants to know what is really true and not just what he or she would like to be true.

For indignation is so easy and satisfying a mood that it is apt to prevent one from attending to any facts that oppose it. If the reader should object that I have abandoned ethics for the false doctrine that 'to understand all is to forgive all,' I can reply that it is only a temporary suspense of ethical judgment, made because 'to condemn much is to understand

Trump craved media approval. But, as Bannon emphasized, he was never going to get the facts right, nor was he ever going to acknowledge that he got them wrong, so therefore he was not going to get that approval.

But, as Bannon emphasized, he was never going to get the facts right, nor was he ever going to acknowledge that he got them wrong, so therefore he was not going to get that approval. This meant, next best thing, that he had to be aggressively defended against the media's disapproval.

Trump craved media approval. But, as Bannon emphasized, he was never going to get the facts right, nor was he ever going to acknowledge that he got them wrong, so therefore he was not going to get that approval. This meant, next best thing, that he had to be aggressively defended against the media's disapproval.

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.

Kids may be taught misinformation or bigotry at their churches or in their homes, but at school, perhaps before those ideas can solidify, something else is challenging them with facts.

History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.

the truth isn't in the facts, and the facts don't always tell the truth. The truth is in the experience.

Facts are not created equal: the production of traces is always also the creation of silences.

By nature, however, we are born ignorant. Therefore should we not try to learn? Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that mean they should freely express violence? We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

I am counting on nothing but the facts about me. So come on, Future. I've my back against the past. Anyway, as you see, it is too late to argue. I've crossed the Rubicon, and can return only when I have built a new bridge.

I had read the baby books, of course, but could remember literally nothing but one fact: "babies are born without kneecaps." What the hell was I supposed to do with that information?

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

All the facts are so stubborn. They don't accept change. It is reaching the level of the ignorant or pretending to know everything.

Everything was said before science existed. We simply prove whether the facts are right or wrong. Science is another word for talking from experience.

Most of the so-called facts are just opinions that have only been accepted by the majority.

Relying upon facts is claiming that you "know it all", while a genius must go beyond these facts and prove them on his own.

Scientific experiences and practices can easily lead to spirituality, rather than trying to memorize more facts.