Facts Quotes

I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.

I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died.

I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.

Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true.

The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.

If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don't put it in the facts section.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.

The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.

Welcome to prekindergarten! You will not die if you discover that there are more lines out there than just your own. In fact, you'll discover that you will have an advantage if you know more of them!

Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.

I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don't address it these days, but it doesn't change the fact.

You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and who is causing it. In fact, it's more or less been over since 1995.

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it