Facts Quotes

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

The fact is that [Hillary Clinton] has been the person who started this type of conversation in the campaign. She should be ashamed of herself.

We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her.

Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

People who get lucky, also tend to be really great looking, which is luck on some level, but it is also just the fact of the matter.

Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.

The fact is he [John F.Kennedy] always had to have somebody around besides Jackie [Kennedy]. Whatever their relationship, he wanted company. I think it gets back to all those years in a hospital bed.

My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids - that's what success is to me.

I find [Donald Trump] to be a vile human being - one that lies so often, so casually, and with such confidence, that fact-checkers actually cannot keep up.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

I see no issue with [Donald] Trump spending 48 hours in Scotland.Whether accidental or intentional, the fact that he was there when Britain voted to leave the EU was a good thing for him.

For me, I focus on trying to get it right and be as fair as possible. There's not much else I can do. People will believe what they want - facts be damned.

After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes before Senate committee.

Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic circles. It's all pretty extraordinary.

Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.

The fact is...I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time.

Republicans are already trying to paint Hillary Clinton as too old to be president. In fact, a new ad claims she’s so old that she could be a Republican.

Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost.

I'm really proud of the fact that anywhere, at any time, I can make music. A lot of people can't do that.

Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.