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Quotes About Fact

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.
~ Conor Oberst
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
~ Edward Abbey
The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A fact may blossom into a truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.
~ Jon Weisman
Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.
~ Kristi Jacobson
Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.
~ Martyn
Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.
~ Mary Ruefle
I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
~ Richard M. Nixon
It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.
~ Susan Sontag
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
~ Theodore White
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.
~ Thomas Jefferson
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
~ William Faulkner
Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.
~ Mark Twain
"It was as true" said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."
~ Charles Dickens
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
~ Lord Byron
For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
~ Lord Byron
Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.
~ Geoffrey Wood
Truth is a fact we fall in love with
~ Anonymous
REAL TRUTH COMES FROM FACT"..
~ VENKATA NAVEEN KASAGANA
A truth should exist, it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?
~ Margaret Atwood