Facts Quotes

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.'

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

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

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

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

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

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.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

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.

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

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.

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.

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

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

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.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

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.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

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

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

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

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?