Quotes About Facts

Reality doesn't care about anyone's moods,

Okay, forget about the disrespect, facts don't care about your feelings. It, turns out that every chromosome, every cell in Caitlyn Jenner's body, is male, with the exception of some of his sperm cells. … It turns out that he still has all of his male appendages. How he feels on the inside is irrelevant to the question of his biological self.

When facts become secondary to emotion, truth dies. And a society that doesn't value truth cannot survive.

How could they reach such a conclusion? Their reasoning was simple and profound. They posited that virtually every object in creation is directed toward an end—a telos, in Greek. The value of an object lies in its capacity to achieve the purpose for which it was designed. Facts and values aren't separate things—values are embedded within facts. For example, a watch is virtuous if it tells time properly; a horse is virtuous if it properly pulls a cart.

Facts have been buried to make way for feelings; a society of essential oils and self-esteem has replaced a society of logic.

The stock investor is neither right or wrong because others agreed or disagreed with him; he is right because his facts and analysis are right.

But his observations of two forms of wildness remain: abrupt change, and almost-trends. These are the two basic facts of a financial market, the facts that any model must accommodate.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Even in London, at the centre of the wealthiest region in northern Europe, in so many ways insulated from the financial realities faced by the rest of the country, the facts of austerity are becoming harder to ignore.

As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

I am an honest person, and that is why I can admit historical facts and I will never try to contradict them.

As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they? I felt when I got to the end that I'd lived for years in that set. But oh dearie me I am glad that I'm not in it!

I hate people who start conversations with facts—what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is.

but facts were facts, and people didn't get to turn Amy into everyone's beloved best friend just because it was emotionally expedient.

Tell me about Wind Gap." Curry held the tip of a ballpoint pen at his grizzled chin. I could picture the tiny prick of blue it would leave among the stubble. "It's at the very bottom of Missouri, in the boot heel. Spitting distance from Tennessee and Arkansas," I said, hustling for my facts.

despite my reluctance to add to the polemics about the record of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the Nazi period, the sombre facts, previously unpublished, which emerged during my research could not be ignored.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth…and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to a boat.