Facts Quotes
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To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
Ernest Renan
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I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.
Stephen Dunn
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
William James
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What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts.
Thomas Carlyle
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But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.
Christie Craig
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There are no facts, only stories.
Emma Restall Orr
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Facts may speak for themselves.
George Washington
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I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
Tim Robbins
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Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.
Ayanna Pressley
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I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.
Alexei Panshin
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In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.
Richie Benaud
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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?
Virginia Woolf
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I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.
Evo Morales
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In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
Dan Graham
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One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.
Stuart Wilde
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I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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The fact speak for themselves.
Demosthenes
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Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
Thomas Kuhn
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I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.
Burton Silverman
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The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.
George C. Homans
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My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts...The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.
Nils Heribert-Nilsson
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Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next one comes along.
Emily Yoffe
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The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green
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People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.
Thomas Sowell