Quotes About Facts

We sow hatred of others fueled by what we think is true, or what we want to be true, without regard to what is true. Cultural and political factions battle for the souls of communities and of nations. We've lost all sight of what distinguishes facts from opinions. We're quick with acts of aggression and slow with acts of kindness.

Once you had a solid base and sufficient knowledge, and respect for the essential facts and real needs of life, nothing rivaled careful observation and contemplation fired by a passion for the invention of new means for experiencing life.

When I start running my mouth, I start running facts. I start giving guys numbers. I start giving guys ideas of where I come from and where I work.

I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up?

'Facts of Life' was and continues to be a milestone on my journey. But when people act like the journey ended when 'Facts of Life' ended, that's annoying. I could never and would never want to divorce myself from it because it was such a great experience from so many different facets.

During MySpace's run-up, journalists continually got their facts wrong about MySpace. They wrote story after story about how Facebook was bigger than MySpace when in truth Facebook wasn't even 1/10th the size of MySpace.

For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.

Realist ist heute, wer auf dem Boden der Tatsachen steht - ein Boden, der in den Plänen dieser gleichen Realisten bereits verseucht ist.

It was an observation, not a judgment. Shylah liked the way Draden seemed to reserve his conclusions until he had the facts.

As I remember, the only newspaper that reported my return with any degree of conservatism was the New York Times, which carried a brief column containing a few pertinent facts and lived up to its motto: All the news that's fit to print.

Science combines a massive contribution, in volume and detail, of what we do know with humility in proclaiming what we don't. Religion, by embarrassing contrast, has contributed literally zero to what we know, combined with huge hubristic confidence in the alleged facts it has simply made up.

No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts.

A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts.

that the facts often concealed the truth.

The most effective insinuation is the one that gives facts that are valueless in themselves, yet cannot be denied because they are true.

I deduce nothing: according to the rules of syllogism nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam, no law can be drawn from two single facts.

we will not succeed if our actions are based on myths and misinformation.

Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.

Mankind is not a circle with a single centre but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.

Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.

trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful.

History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these details, which are wrongly called trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful.

There has come into fashion a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing facts and all gloomy questions.