Quotes About Facts

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

The social media platforms have taken over the distribution of news globally. They treat a lie the same way you would treat a fact.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

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.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

I was always really into the facts and figures and the statistics about nature and I always loved learning about it and having a new fact on hand. For me it was non-stop dirt, climbing trees and catching lizards and beetles. That was my thing as soon as I could crawl.

Influential people aren't buffeted by the latest trend or by public opinion. They form their opinions carefully, based on the facts. They're more than willing to change their mind when the facts support it, but they aren't influenced by what other people think - only by what they know.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what's true but what he can convince a jury is true.

An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.

Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?''For fun?''Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.

I don't believe that aliens exist, but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.

Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

Truth, at times is just an accepted opinion

When facts give way to faith, then and only then do you unlock the possibilities within.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

Nothing is the truer than the Truth.

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

Facts don't care about your feelings.

Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.