Factual Quotes

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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."

Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem factual by comparison.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial.

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.

If anything, more kids that want to get good at golf will get fine-tuned. It's factual. It's science, how to build a golfer. I think that's huge.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.

To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

[about tabloid magazines] Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn't make it factual. To buy it is to feed it.

The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

That claim was not intended to be a factual statement.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.