Best 4898 quotes in «facts quotes» category

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is, in fact, the product of converging evidence from many, many different fields of science. Many, many thousands of studies that, in fact, have provided a theory, an organizing principal in fact, that describes how humans came to be.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

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

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art

Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

Fact is, perfection is boring.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Facts and particulars annoy me.

Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Facts can obscure the truth.

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

FACT!: I wanna live in a castle.

FACT: Nothing in Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

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

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

Fact: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

Fact is richer than diction.