Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.
~By Robert Barany ~
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.
~By Paul Deman ~
You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.
~By Denis Johnson ~
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
~By Henri Poincare ~
I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.
~By Deborah Bull ~
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
~By Mark Twain ~
But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
~By Katharine Graham ~
I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.
~By Anatoli Boukreev ~
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.
~By Joe Sacco ~
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
~By Maya Angelou ~
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
~By Paul Martin ~
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?
~By Robert Novak ~
We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
~By Tavis Smiley ~
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
~By Charles McCabe ~
If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
~By Bob Kane ~
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.
~By Tom Schulman ~
Seek truth from facts.
~By Deng Xiaoping ~
The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
~By Norman Sherry ~
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
~By Stephen Colbert ~
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
~By Janet Leigh ~
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
~By Roger Wicker ~
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
~By Adam Smith ~
I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category.
~By Howard Coble ~
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
~By Blake Edwards ~
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
~By Daniel Patrick Moynihan ~
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
~By Ken Burns ~
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
~By John Updike ~
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
~By George Combe ~
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
~By George Orwell ~
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
~By Martin Henry Fischer ~
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
~By John Henry Newman ~
Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.
~By Robert Welch ~
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
~By Sophia Loren ~
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
~By David Friedrich Strauss ~
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
~By Finley Peter Dunne ~
Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others.
~By Roscoe Conkling ~
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
~By Henri Poincare ~
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
~By George Saintsbury ~
It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.
~By Frank Rich ~
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
~By Catherine Drinker Bowen ~
Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
~By Bill Frist ~
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.
~By Johannes Stark ~
Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
~By Charles Edwards ~
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.
~By William Whewell ~
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
~By Victor Francis Hess ~
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
~By Ted Kulongoski ~
Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
~By Robert Peel ~
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.
~By Brendan Gill ~
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
~By Linus Pauling ~
Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.
~By Jerome Bruner ~
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
~By Luther Burbank ~
A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.
~By Melvin Belli ~
Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
~By Robert Lynd ~
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
~By Felix Bloch ~
We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment.
~By Stafford Cripps ~
My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.
~By Howard Baker ~
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.
~By Bob Marley ~
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
~By Ernest Bevin ~
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.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
Facts are stubborn things.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
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