Quotes About Fact

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

A theory is a broad way of organizing and rendering intelligible the observable data uncovered by scientific exploration. And nothing becomes a scientific "fact" except in the context of an overarching theory. Theory is not something that dissolves or disappears once we get to the "facts." It abides as the intelligible context in which all facts are identified as such.

America is on its way into Europe. You can be as isolationist as you want to be, but there is a fact. Our armies are on their way in. Just as truly as Europe once invaded us, with wave after wave of immigrants, now we are invading Europe, with wave after wave of sons of immigrants.

At heart I'm still a straight-laced, fuddy-duddy science journalist who believes, knows, that science can discover true facts about the world. But my view of truth has become more expansive lately.

Freemasons, anti-Masons, and interested historians will apparently have to live with the simple fact that constant repetition does not create truth.

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Everything is a matter of perspective, she told them. Every story of what happened is just a version of what happened. Memory is subjective. Fact and truth are two different things.

Some things are just universal. Like the known scientific fact that the colder and wetter you are, the better bacon smells frying.

Grandmother turned a little difficult and said no living gift could be received in future unless it was a vegetarian, and no mechanical gift unless it could refrain from calling attention to the passing of time by shrill noises in the night. Life fed on life, one knew, and time passed, but Grandmother did not wish her attention called to either distressing fact.

I don't say it was likely -- I only say it is true.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Even with the eclipse of conciliarism, the fact remained that by 1400, Aristotle reigned supreme in Europe's universities and its intellectual life.

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

The final state of affairs may not have been foreseen. Perhaps we are merely reading a plan into the world after the fact.

You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.

It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.