Facts Quotes

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes—as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.[Upon hearing the Periodic Table explained in a first-tern university lecture.]

~ C.p. Snow

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

~ Gordon R. Dickson

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.

~ Yann Martel

Ive tried and tried and now I give up. I refuse to be the perfect friend to people that cant treat me with the same respect.

~ Lovely Goyal

Life wasn't all fucking sunshine and rainbows. Real life was hard.

~ Kendall Ryan

The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Man cannot be content in his riches even if he has the whole world, there must be a frivolous extra desire.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

all fiction is better with explosions' said Jared. 'Basic fact of life.

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Nobody should ever try to second-guess history, the facts are fantastic enough.

~ Louis L'amour

There's no destiny, you just decide where you end.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do this? He may know the totality of facts constituting the world; call this Y. But in order to know that he has mastered Y, he must also know that 'There are no facts unknown to me' — and this is beyond Y.It seems impossible that a god (or anyone) could ever be sure that nothing exists beyond his ken. It makes no sense to imagine [a god] arriving at this limit, peering beyond it (at what?), and satisfying himself no further facts exist. But without this certainty he cannot be sure of his own omniscience, and so does not know everything.A theist might argue that his god has created all the facts in existence. But an omniscient god would have to be sure of even this — that he is the sole creator, and that there are no facts unknown to him. And how could he come to this knowledge?

~ Roland Puccetti

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

~ Lu Xun

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals ...

~ Oswald Spengler

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

~ Glenn Greenwald

The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.

~ Lionel Suggs

We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year's fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things to memory when you've got Google? My response to this - after I've finished inwardly groaning - is that of course reasoning is important, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't know facts as well. It's not like you have to choose between one or the other. Besides, facts give you a foundation on which to reason about things.

~ Stefanie Weisman

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

~ Shlomo Sand

Odd Fellows Chamber Music for 2013 will be in October this yearTo Participants in the Odd Fellows Youth Chamber Music Project:Because an elevator is being installed at the Lodge, probably during August, we have to change the date:Instead of the two-week August program, we will be holding a weekend Baroque Festival in October, with an emphasis on Bach. There will be groups of all sizes and levels.The Program will take place on October 19th and 20th, 2013. We will rehearse from 9:30 AM to 12 Noon, and from 1 PM to 5PM, on Saturday. We’ll be feeding you during the lunch break.The performance will be at 3 PM on Sunday October 20th. Reception after.We’ll still be keeping one person on each part, and without Conductors. We will be sending out applications soon. Probably the deadline will be July 1st. Hope you all can make it.If you know of anyone who has played in the past who hasn’t gotten this invitation, please have them contact us. We’re trying not leave anyone out. Cathy O’ConnorTed SeitzReality has a well-known liberal bias.

~ Stephen Co

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history, history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.

~ Carter Dickson

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.

~ C. Joybell C.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

~ Evan Esar

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

~ Thomas Huxley

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

~ Hans Eysenck

Attitudes are more important than facts.

~ George Macdonald

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

~ Francis Parker Yockey

In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

~ Robbie Robertson

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

~ Sarah Silverman

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.

~ Barry Commoner

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

~ Elia Kazan

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

~ David Friedrich Strauss

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

~ Aleister Crowley

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

~ Charles Darwin

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

~ Unknown

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.

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ John Ruskin

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

~ Blake Edwards

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.

~ Henri Poincaré

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

~ Auguste Comte