Facts Quotes

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.

There is no democracy of facts.

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by the time we inked it, he would have turned into the Scarecrow.

I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.

Video screenshot Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.' "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary to what the government had planned to do.

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

Let's be honest, the fact that Michael [Gove] announced very late in the process this morning that he was going to put his name forward, showed how much he had wrestled with this.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

Little known fact, or not a little known fact actually - that Prince is a Gemini.

My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions.

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.

In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature.

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name wrong.

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

By rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact, has made another crisis more likely.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.