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Quotes About Fact

There is no form to this story because it is true, or at least as close to true as I have been able to make it.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
There is no greater sin against the spirit of true art, no more contemptible dilettanism than to use artistic license as a specious cover for ignorance of fact.
~ Konrad Lorenz
Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.
~ Millard Fillmore
No amount of belief makes something a fact.
~ James Randi
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God
~ Thomas Jefferson
The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.
~ Bill Maher
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
~ Leslie Stephen
THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all
~ Richard Dawkins
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
~ Clarence Darrow
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
~ John Stuart Mill
My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.
~ Henry David Thoreau
For as many people as I quote-unquote lost respect from, I gained respect from a lot more. I know that's a fact.
~ Ken Rosenthal
When a thousand people believe some made-up story for one month, that's fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousand years, that's a religion, and we are admonished not to call it "fake news" in order not to hurt the feelings of the faithful (or incur their wrath).
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Dare to believe. Dare to live. Dare to act. Dare to fact. Dare to sail. Dare to fail. Dare to give. Dare to forgive.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
In an Internet age it is, at first glance, democratic to say that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. That is surely true. It is however a fatal step to then claim that all opinions are equal. Some opinions are backed by fact. Others are not. And those which are not backed by fact are worth considerably less than those which are.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
Having placed its trust in "reality as given," science overlooks the self- evident fact that nothing can be experienced without consciousness. It is a more viable candidate for "reality as given" than the physical universe.
~ Deepak Chopra
The fact speak for themselves.
~ Demosthenes
Did you know, and this is a fact here, did you know that most spiders are ugly? It's true. The woman spiders have it really hard time of it. I saw it on a documentary. Why do you think the Black Widow kills the guy she mates with? Shame, that's why - Tanith Low
~ Derek Landy
Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.
~ Benton MacKaye
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
~ Aristotle
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
~ Thomas Hobbes
The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .
~ Thomas Hobbes
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
~ Henry Mayhew