Quotes About Facts

If we have the courage, the implication is, we will enter this new Nietzschean universe, where there are no guaranteed facts, only interpretations, none of which has the stamp of authority upon it, since there is no longer any authoritative center to which to appeal for validation of our interpretations.

If you entrust a nation's economy to an impulsive leader with no care for facts, disaster will follow.

Another religious fanatic to whom facts and reality took second place to dogma.

So far as the facts in the case are concerned, Dr Howell and I had called our book a 'true' history.

Still influenced by his university days in the lab, Steffens hoped that his reporting would produce "facts of scientific value" on labor issues in New York.

The entire city was his hunting ground. In the summer months, dressed in a blazer and wearing his straw hat at a jaunty angle, he would regularly stroll along under the arches, and then along the pier. Next he would ride on the Volks Railway, where in the cramped intimacy of its hard seats he liked to talk to strangers, telling them this was the world's oldest still-running electric train, and boring them with facts about it.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.