The facts of life are very stubborn things.
~By Cleveland Amory ~
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.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.
~By Mark Strand ~
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated.
~By Keith Carradine ~
As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.
~By Robert Mueller ~
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
~By Nancy Cartwright ~
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
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 ~
This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
~By Charlie Gonzalez ~
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 ~
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
~By Victor Hugo ~
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
~By George Combe ~
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Attitudes are more important than facts.
~By George MacDonald ~
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
~By Werner Herzog ~
Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.
~By Jerome Bruner ~
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
~By Barack Obama ~
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
~By Alan Alda ~
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
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 ~
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
~By Gore Vidal ~
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
~By John McGahern ~
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
~By Henri Poincare ~
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
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 ~
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.
~By Randall Jarrell ~
I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
~By Robert Mueller ~
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
~By Louis Stokes ~
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 ~
In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
~By John Doolittle ~
There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.
~By Chester Brown ~
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 ~
Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.
~By Robert Barany ~
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.
~By Melvin Maddocks ~
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
~By Robert Owen ~
I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
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 ~
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.
~By Kenneth Clarke ~
Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.
~By Kenneth Starr ~
The facts are always less than what really happened.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
~By Joichi Ito ~
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
~By Huston Smith ~
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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 ~
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
~By Francis Wright ~
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
~By Andy Rooney ~
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 ~
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
~By Christina G. Rossetti ~
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
~By Denis Johnson ~
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
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 ~
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
~By Robert Peel ~
Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.
~By Ryan White ~
The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.
~By John Edwards ~
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
~By Jon Wynne-Tyson ~
Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
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 ~
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
~By George Santayana ~
We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.
~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.
~By Luke Scott ~
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.
~By Norm Coleman ~
It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem.
~By Dillon Anderson ~
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
~By Bliss Carman ~
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
~By Paul de Man ~
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
~By Blake Edwards ~
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
~By Charles Darwin ~
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
~By Simon Travaglia ~
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 ~
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 ~
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
~By Shirley Jackson ~
With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
~By Paul Berg ~
The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.
~By Curt Weldon ~
I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded.
~By Frederic Remington ~
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