Facts Quotes
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Jack Prelutsky
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Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.
August Bier
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
Iain McGilchrist
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To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.
Wilfred Bion
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There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
Finley Peter Dunne
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She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him
Emma Orczy
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Facts are not interesting to me.
Ray Bradbury
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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
Samuel McChord Crothers
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
Karen Traviss
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Using facts to settle disputes. How bold of you.
Courtney Milan
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
Abraham Robinson
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
Rachel Maddow
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
Malcolm Forbes
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Comment is free but facts are sacred.
C. P. Scott
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
Fidel Castro
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A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.
Marlo Thomas
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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
Thomas Sowell
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
Talcott Parsons
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In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter
Longchenpa
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Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.
D. T. Suzuki
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The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
George Gilder
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It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.
H. G. Wells
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It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.
Donald Miller