Facts Quotes

For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.

Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.

There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

If you perform your part, God will fulfill His. And once you put off specifically, you should just as thoroughly believe that God will renew your mind, despite the fact you know not how.

I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.

All genuine progress results from finding new facts

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

The way young people are joining communities online, and agreeing and separating themselves and creating their own facts about things like vaccination, is worrying.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.

Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.

The emotions will take care of themselves. You don't have to prod them along. As a matter of fact, you get in trouble when you prod them along.

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.

The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.

There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me.

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them.

I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.