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Quotes About Fact

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.
~ Anne Michaels
The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.
~ John Mason Brown
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
~ Frank Luntz
Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
~ Robert Graves
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
~ Bryant H. McGill
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
~ Edward Albee
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
~ Eleanor Antin
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.
~ Robert McKee
But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
~ Ken Kesey
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
~ Werner Herzog
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
~ H. L. Mencken
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.
~ Hilda Phoebe Hudson
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
~ Edward Albee
One must not mistake majority for truth.
~ Jean Cocteau
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction
~ Remy de Gourmont
This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.
~ Brian Perkins
Error is always more busy than truth.
~ Hosea Ballou
Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.
~ Barry Hughart
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
~ Ernest Renan
The truth is what hurts
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
~ William James
but even the facts do not always tell the truth
~ Paul Auster
In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.
~ Mario Van Peebles