Facts Quotes
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Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.
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I prefer facts, but sometimes sense is all you have to go on.
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We're going to let the facts go where they go
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
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Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.
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Congress has a right and a need to know what this proposed deal would mean for terminal operations and security at our ports. Even if they come later than we would have liked, we must get the facts.
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
