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Quotes About Facts

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Chemists all agree on the fundamental facts of chemistry.
~ Richard Carrier
Iselin is a man who shall forever stand guard at the door of the mind to protect the people of this great nation from facts.
~ Richard Condon
Our witness must center not on our experience but on the facts of Christ's coming to this world.
~ Richard D. Phillips
Behind every legend, strange to say, can be found a kernel of truth, a group of facts around which the legend was built.
~ Richard Evelyn Byrd
2. We can't do evidence-based policy without evidence.
~ Richard H. Thaler
She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.
~ Richard Llewellyn
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
~ Richard Wright
No longer could I root happily into my mother's company and find comfort in her rounded shape. There was no one to tell me the facts. How much nutrition to pull from the dirt? Would the beetles bring harm? And what of the worms? Friends, foe, or nevermind?
~ Kate Bernheimer
harm can be done by those who proffer an opinion when they are only in partial possession of the facts. A man might do better to hold his tongue than scatter words without a care as to where they might land.
~ Kate Mosse
There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts.
~ Kathy Acker
You want a logical explanation? String the facts together. The scenes.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.
~ Ken Follett
Since Lenin died, every Soviet leader had been a liar. They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality. The most striking characteristic of Soviet leadership for the last sixty-five year was the refusal to face facts.(1075)
~ Ken Follett
La característica más asombrosa del liderazgo soviético de los anteriores sesenta y cinco años era la negativa a afrontar los hechos.
~ Ken Follett
Sin embargo, los moderados siempre parecían fiarse más de las esperanzas que de los hechos.
~ Ken Follett
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
~ Henry Adams
We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
~ Tavis Smiley
When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.
~ Margaret Heffernan
Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.
~ Diane Nash
To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.
~ Peter Munk