Facts Quotes (page 2)

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• fly
• canned
• never

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. Linus Pauling

• powerful
• power
• sometimes

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

• stubborn
• pliable
• more

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. Mark Twain

• bases
• matters
• fact

Fact is based upon vulgar matter. Charles Olson

• art
• enough
• enough is enough

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

• food
• mind
• mindfulness

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. Edmund Burke

• interest
• interested
• interesting

Facts are not interesting to me. Ray Bradbury

• people
• other
• some people

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others. Patrick J. Kennedy

• stubborn
• fact
• stubbornness

Facts are stubborn things. Ronald Reagan

• truthfully
• many
• buts

Facts are many, but the truth is one. Rabindranath Tagore

• stupid
• law
• connect

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. Louis Agassiz

• pilot
• history
• ignorance

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts! Robert A. Heinlein

• respect
• creativity
• giving

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. Virginia Woolf

• value
• passion
• life

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become. Jeanette Winterson

• hope
• god
• life

It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, in God's Son Jesus Christ, than to discover what God intends for us today. The fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than the fact that I will die. And the fact that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead is the sole ground of my hope that I, too, will be... Dietrich Bonhoeffer