My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.
~By Martin Kippenberger ~
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 ~
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 ~
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
~By Werner Herzog ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
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.
~By Abraham Robinson ~
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
~By David Seabury ~
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
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 ~
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
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 ~
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
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 ~
Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
~By Louis Agassiz ~
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
~By Elia Kazan ~
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 ~
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 ~
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
Don't confuse facts with reality.
~By Robert D. Ballard ~
Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.
~By Tom Schulman ~
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
~By Denis Diderot ~
There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
~By Simon Travaglia ~
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
~By Jessamyn West ~
How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.
~By Caryl Chessman ~
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 ~
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
~By Francis Wright ~
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
~By Robert Fulghum ~
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 ~
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
~By Samuel Chase ~
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
~By Albion W. Small ~
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
~By Richard Ford ~
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
~By Andy Rooney ~
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 ~
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
~By Edith Hamilton ~
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 ~
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 ~
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
~By William Glasser ~
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 ~
Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
~By Hervey Allen ~
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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 ~
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
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 ~
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
~By Studs Terkel ~
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 ~
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 ~
But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
~By Paul de Man ~
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
There are no facts, only interpretations.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
~By Bliss Carman ~
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 ~
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
~By E. B. White ~
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
~By John Burroughs ~
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
~By Francis Wright ~
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.
~By John White Geary ~
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 ~
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.
~By Martin Bashir ~
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
~By Chevy Chase ~
Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
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 ~
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
~By Carl Rogers ~
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
~By Barry Commoner ~
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
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 ~
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
~By Finley Peter Dunne ~
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
~By Maya Angelou ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
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