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  • Fact Quote #1

    All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • Fact Quote #2

    All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though we have something called factual knowledge which may then be distorted by particular interests and judgements, although this is certainly possible; it is also that without particular interests we would have no knowledge at all, because we would not see the point of bothering to get to know anything. Interests are constitutive of our knowledge, not merely prejudices which imperil it. The claim that knowledge should be 'value-free' is itself a value-judgement.

    Terry Eagleton

  • Fact Quote #3

    All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy’s credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn’t be more than average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty.

    Hannah Harrington

  • Fact Quote #4

    Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths.

    Dave Champion

  • Fact Quote #5

    An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

    Tom Bissell

  • Fact Quote #6

    An enthusiastic philosopher, of whose name we are not informed, had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other, and was not a little proud of it. But the facts, my dear fellow, said his friend, the facts do not agree with your theory.—Don't they? replied the philosopher, shrugging his shoulders, then, tant pis pour les faits;—so much the worse for the facts!

    Charles Mackay

  • Fact Quote #7

    An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete emancipation of the modern geologist from the controlling and perverting influence of theology, all-powerful at the earlier date. As the geologist of my young days wrote, he had one eye upon fact, and the other on Genesis; at present, he wisely keeps both eyes on fact, and ignores the pentateuchal mythology altogether. The publication of the 'Principles of Geology' brought upon its illustrious author a period of social ostracism; the instruction given to our children is based upon those principles. Whewell had the courage to attack Lyell's fundamental assumption (which surely is a dictate of common sense) that we ought to exhaust known causes before seeking for the explanation of geological phenomena in causes of which we have no experience.

    Thomas Henry Huxley

  • Fact Quote #8

    And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you I could set the night a glow. So we needed one another—the dark and the light. Your fear. My courage. Connected, but separated. Different, but the same. A synergy that made no sense, but every bit of sense. We were neither a beginning, nor an end. We were somewhere in between our madness at sunset and the reality we awakened to with each sunrise. We were the ghosts of timing and fate. We were neither fantasy, nor reality--- we were a purpose somewhere in between.

    Shannon L. Alder

  • Fact Quote #9

    Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and got control of herself with an visible effort. She took three deep breaths, each longer than the last, and her features became serene.
    All at once it seemed totally clear to Mike that she was right and he was nuts - that his ingenius theory was nonsense, childish, fantasty bullshit. His conviction evaporated, and he was ashamed. He felt his cheeks grow hot, groped for words with which to backtrack -
    I have to admit I have no better explanation for the the facts, Annie said slowly.
    Again, Mike did an emotional instant 180. Holy shit -
    She held up a hand. I am going to think now. Very hard, for a long time. You will be as quiet as possible while I do. She got up from the computer, went to the bed, and lay down. Think yourself, or read, or play games with the headphones on, or go Topside if you like. She clasped her hands on her belly, closed her eyes and appeared to go to sleep

    Spider Robinson

  • Fact Quote #10

    Another vindication I had is the fact that I believed the Christian message and the gospel of the kingdom is good enough to fix the world’s problems

    Sunday Adelaja

  • Fact Quote #11

    Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.

    E.E. EvansPritchard

  • Fact Quote #12

    Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

    Dean Koontz

  • Fact Quote #13

    As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time.

    Sunday Adelaja

  • Fact Quote #14

    As a matter of fact, confrontation could be a seed of peace.

    Sunday Adelaja

  • Fact Quote #15

    As a matter of fact, people erroneously think that life is about spending.

    Sunday Adelaja

  • Fact Quote #16

    As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the intellect of an American audience. There was logic even in his laughter. He passed the cup of mirth, and in its sparkling foam were found the gems of unanswerable truth.

    {Kittredge on the great Robert Ingersoll}

    Herman E. Kittredge

  • Fact Quote #17

    As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

    Michael Shermer

  • Fact Quote #18

    At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts

    William Styron

  • Fact Quote #19

    At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.

    Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.

    Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

    When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.

    Robert G. Ingersoll

  • Fact Quote #20

    At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.

    Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.

    Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

    When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.

    Robert G. Ingersoll

  • Fact Quote #21

    Babies are born without knee-caps.

    Reader's Digest Association

  • Fact Quote #22

    Be kind to one another and seek beauty in all you do.

    Bryant McGill

  • Fact Quote #23

    Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

    Paulo Coelho

  • Fact Quote #24

    Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

    Criss Jami

  • Fact Quote #25

    Before analyzing the consequences of a fact; analyze its causes.

    Daniel Melgaço

  • Fact Quote #26

    Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

    Bob Dylan

  • Fact Quote #27

    Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

    Bob Dylan

  • Fact Quote #28

    Belief has nothing to do with facts,
    especially for the unbelievable facts.

    Toba Beta

  • Fact Quote #29

    Believe it. The world isn't all fairy tales and pixie dust. You need to grow up and face reality.

    Melody Anne

  • Fact Quote #30

    Believe me...Nothing is bad or wrong , just prove it as right

    Alpesh Vasan

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