facts Quotes

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

“What’s done cannot be undone.”

“Though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”

“For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.”

″‘Then let me have the private ones.’ He leaned back, put his finger-tips together, and assumed his most impassive and judicial expression.”

“Those are facts, but facts, to a child, are merely words to memorize.”

“The fact is, I think, that my friends really didn’t know. They didn’t know because they didn’t want to know; but they didn’t know. They could have found out, at the time, only if they had wanted to very badly.”

“JUROR #3: Now these are the facts. You can’t refute facts. The kid is guilty. I’m just as sentimental as the next fella. I know he’s only 18.”

“JUDGE: It’s now your duty to sit down and try and separate the facts from the fancy.”

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

“As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn’t read into it more than is there.”

“If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture - it comes from manufacturing.”

“As Friedrich Nietzsche said, ‘Man is the cruelest animal.’ This is a fact of life and it is not changed by all the abuse and harassment policies in all of Silicon Valley. Progressives will never understand this.

“That which you believe becomes your world.”

“You must not demand the reason either in all things alike, because in some it is sufficient that the fact has been well demonstrated.”

“I could tell you an interesting fact to get you nodding, Like how carpets were first made in the hopes that all of the world’s grass would one day be replaced by carpets, or, as they called them, ‘comfy grass.‘”

“There’s a dirty little secret that the scientific establishment has been trying to keep under wraps for years: There are many unproven theories that are being taught to people as if they were established fact.”

“But no matter when I go back, the fact remains, eventually I need to face the other people on the tapes.”

“How the myth wipes out the fact.”

“The will to power is not a being, not a becoming, but a pathos --the most elemental fact from which a becoming and effecting first emerge-”

Instead of being stories of hope for children, I suspect their massive appeal lies in the fact they are really wildly-nostalgic stories for adults about how broken childhoods (and sometimes even broken adulthoods) should have been.

“Facts are fine, fer as they go... but they’re like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now — they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story.”

“You can’t stop animals from running away! They’re frightened. They don’t want to be killed and eaten!”

“The world is in need of a practical, understandable philosophy of achievement, organized from the factual knowledge gained from the experience of men and women in the great university of life.”

“And fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.”

“Power was as much a fact of life for this guy as gravity. The world bent to the will of Grayson Hawthorne. What money couldn’t buy him, those eyes probably did.”

“I’ll solve a puzzle, read a book, and learn a fun new fact!”

“Also, it was a well-known fact that there were no calories in homemade cakes.”

“I can much more easily believe Mr. Bingley’s being imposed on, than that Mr. Wickham should invent such a history of himself as he gave me last night; names, facts, everything mentioned without ceremony. If it be not so, let Mr. Darcy contradict it. Besides, there was truth in his looks.”

“No, I don’t want any of your imaginings. Just you stick to bald facts. Begin at the beginning. Where were you born and how old are you?” “I was eleven last March,” said Anne, resigning herself to bald facts with a little sigh. “And I was born in Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia.”

“One can use them in fiction, of course. But then the only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.”

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

But facts are not everything—at least half the business lies in how you interpret them!”