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Quotes About Fact

Public opinion is driven by perception rather than by fact, particularly in this town. If a newspaper
~ David Baldacci
The undivided wholeness of modes of observation, instrumentation and theoretical understanding indicated above implies the need to consider a new order of fact, i.e., the fact about the way in which modes of theoretical understanding and of observation and instrumentation are related to each other.
~ David Bohm
unpleasant-fact specialist
~ David Foster Wallace
No other work of man in any language even faintly resembles the intricate structure and design of the Bible. The fact remains – only an infinite mind could have devised this Book of books.
~ Winkie Pratney
An excessive respect for scientific truth has obscured our own truth. In our eagerness to understand reality, we forget that we are not here to understand reality, but only to express it. We, art, are reality. Art is a fact and not commentary attached to fact.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
The world is everything that is the case.
~ Unknown
It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the social organization of Western culture.
~ Unknown
Just because you've said it..doesn't make it true
~ Unknown
It's hard to know what has become folklore and what is reality. But don't all myths stem from some semblance of fact?
~ Unknown
Pensar es un acto. Sentir es un hecho. Los dos juntos son yo que escribo lo que estoy escribiendo. Dios es el mundo. La verdad es siempre un contacto interior e inexplicable.
~ Clarice Lispector
My maturing of a theme would already be a cantabile aria— so let somebody else make another song— the song of the maturing of my quartet. This is before the maturing. The melody would be the fact.
~ Clarice Lispector
O fato é um ato? Juro que este livro é feito sem palavras. É uma fotografia muda. Este livro é um silêncio. Este livro é uma pergunta.
~ Clarice Lispector
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
~ Claude Bernard
Sometimes comfort doesn't matter. When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you're better than everyone else.
~ Clinton Kelly
Science is but the statement of truth found out.
~ Unknown
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
~ Herbert Spencer
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
~ Herbert Spencer
Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
~ Heywood Broun
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
It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.
~ Hillary Clinton
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.
~ Honore de Balzac
He sounded so certain. Whenever they had an argument about a point of fact, he was always so utterly confident that he had it right and she had it wrong. He never even entertained the possibility that he might be mistaken. It drove her bananas. She struggled with an irresistible urge to slap him across the face.
~ Liane Moriarty
More beautiful than the world, word. Matter of fact, beautiful aint the word. Unexplainable is the beauty of her. And Ill be the race car, hitting her curves.
~ Lil Wayne
Philosophy not only begins with the individual, but also ends with the individual. For an individual is the final fact of life. He is an end in himself, and not a means to other creations of the human mind. The
~ Lin Yutang