Facts Quotes

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

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.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

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.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

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.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

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

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

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.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

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.

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.

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.