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Quotes About Facts

McCrodden's brisk, business-as-usual way of speaking chilled Poirot. It lent an air of objectivity to his words, as if he was merely conveying the plain and uncontroversial facts.
~ Sophie Hannah
The truth is, as I have often said, and as Scripture informs us, and as the facts themselves sufficiently indicate, the demons are found to look after their own ends only, that they may be regarded and worshipped as gods, and that men may be induced to offer to them a worship which associates them with their crimes, and involves them in one common wickedness and judgment of God.
~ St. Augustine
Music will enable you to see past facts to the very essence of things in a way which science cannot do. The arts are the means by which we can look through the magic casements and see what lies beyond.
~ Stacy Horn
And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
~ Stacy Schiff
Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
~ Janet Leigh
The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.
~ Christoph Waltz
Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
~ Richard Dawkins
Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
~ Farley Mowat
Truth and news are not the same thing.
~ Katharine Graham
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
~ Luther Burbank
Truth is in things, and not in words.
~ Herman Melville
The truth is in the details.
~ Stephen King
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
~ Tom Stoppard
[Science is] the literature of truth.
~ Josh Billings
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...
~ William Faulkner
For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.
~ Al Gore
Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.
~ Richard Selzer
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
~ T. S. Eliot
Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.
~ Stephen Colbert
If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
~ Bob Kane
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.
~ Mary Stewart
Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
~ David Douglass