Facts Quotes

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't.

I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the fact that I'd seen, maybe better than anyone here, what dreams could do to you.

When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.

From the fact that E is evidence for T and the fact that T entails M, it doesn't follow that E is evidence for M.

I ride five days out of the week. In fact, I take my bike as much as I can, especially with L.A. traffic. You want to get in and out, all the time.

I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

Listen, you may not like the fact that I'm talking about Donald Trump, but the facts are that he is now, this is a race. This is a - it's no longer Hillary's [Clinton]. This is now a horse race.

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.

I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.

What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.

In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.

My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.

When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.

Death cannot alter facts - only feelings.

Truth is but approved facts.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.