Facts Quotes

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

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.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

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.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

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.

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

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.

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.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

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.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

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.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Seek truth from facts.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem.

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

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.

Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

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.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

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.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.