Quotes About Facts

President Trump, when challenged on facts, says that many people feel the way he does. But feelings should not take the place of reason in matters of public policy.

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Truth cared nothing for stories. The real world was indifferent to what people wanted to be, to how they wanted everything to turn out.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You can't argue with facts. You're not entitled to your own facts.

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

I really do believe that our attitudes are shaped much more by our social groups than they are by facts on the ground. We are not great reasoners. Most people don't like to think at all, or like to think as little as possible. And by most, I mean roughly 70 percent of the population. Even the rest seem to devote a lot of their resources to justifying beliefs that they want to hold, as opposed to forming credible beliefs based only on fact.

You are a willing conspirator in his dreams. Understandably. He offered you sanctuary when you solely needed it. He wants to train you for a purpose, this is clear. And if you go along with that, without knowing all the facts, that is the fault of your silence rather than Taropat's secrecy, surely.

With my family, historical facts are subsidiary to narrative, and narrative must always show the narrator in the best light.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.