Facts Quotes
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.
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I prefer facts, but sometimes sense is all you have to go on.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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We're going to let the facts go where they go
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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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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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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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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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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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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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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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I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
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We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.