Facts Quotes
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People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.
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Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.
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There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.
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Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.
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When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in my stories is the fact that when I write, I really want to find out what is going on-I'm writing for myself as a reader. It's like when you dream a dream. I want to know what's behind the door. If I navigate, it's from a place that's totally intuitive.
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I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.
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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.
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They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Facts always are sensational.
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Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
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We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.
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In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.
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Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
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Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
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Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
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Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
