Quotes About Facts

If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( "Blame storming")

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

A gemba attitude means going to the source to check the facts to arrive at well-informed decisions

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

In experiments using MRI scans, Westen has demonstrated that persons with partisan preferences believe what they want to believe regardless of the facts. Not only that, they unconsciously congratulate themselves—the reward centers of their brains light up—when they reject new information that does not square with their predetermined views.

It is cheering to find a newspaper of the great influence and circulation of the Journal that tells the facts as they exist, and ignores the suggestions of various kinds that emanate from sources that cannot be described as patriotic or loyal to the flag.

I learned long ago that when a thing defies rational explanation then it is because I lack a complete understanding of the facts.

If you can't get your head around facts then stick with all the possibilities fiction gives.

If the law is on your side, hammer the law. If the facts are on your side, hammer the facts. If neither is on your side, hammer the table.

One thing we've learned is that when people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.

I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.

That's why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

Facts! Stick to the facts! That gets rid of 99 per cent of everything anyone's ever said or written, which cuts your homework down to a nice manageable size, doesn't it? Sniff out the truth!

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

for, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can make them more bearable.

Aunque la comprensión no puede alterar los hechos, ayuda a hacerlos más soportables.

encendidas las lámparas, y encontré al conde yaciendo en el sofá, leyendo, de todas las cosas en el mundo, una Guía Inglesa de Bradshaw. Cuando yo entré, él quitó los libros y papeles de la mesa; y entonces comencé a explicarle los planos y los hechos, y los números. Estaba interesado por todo, y me hizo infinidad de preguntas relacionadas con el lugar y sus alrededores. Estaba claro que él había estudiado de antemano

embora a solidariedade não altere os fatos, ajuda a torná-los mais suportáveis.

The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at.

Feelings aren't facts and opinions aren't crimes and aesthetics still count—and the reason I'm a writer is to present an aesthetic, things that are true without always having to be factual or immutable.

I told you, dude," Van Patten says and then patiently restates his facts. "We can't get that. It's like zero zero zero point oh one percentage—