Facts Quotes

Facts may speak for themselves.

A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread.

An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been a byword for top physical prowess and spectacular athletic performance.

There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private. The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as a model of beauty stupefied him.

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.

Even in the news division of Fox - which I want to make very clear and I have from the very beginning - I am not a journalist. In fact, I wear that as a badge of honor.

We see facts with our eyes; we see ideas with our minds; we see ideals with our souls. Whatever we see with our souls is real and permanent and cannot be destroyed.

All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by starting a fight.

I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

I remember facts are just facts, circumstances are merely circumstances.

You should just go, go to work, work hard, be a perfectionist, be a workhorse. If you work 10 years straight, you'll be comfortable and set for life. That is a fact.

You can't smoke in a restaurant in Los Angeles, which is mildly ironic, when you consider the fact that you can't breathe outside a restaurant in Los Angeles.

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

[Adolf Hitler] was Austrian, so he knew how to play that role [being capable of apologizing]. In fact, it wasn't playacting, it was just part of who he was. He hated to see women cry or women upset.

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

I've never lived outside of Canada, so I've been really cold my entire life. Most of my memories are coloured by the fact that I was really cold, just... all the time!

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

The fact that Cornish exists at all is just incredible as is the work that people are doing down there, it's such an important part of who people are.

It's not facts that hurt people, it's their attitude towards facts.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.

In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are.

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

The fact is that there is nothing more beautiful, more worthy or more conscious than you.

I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.

There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.