History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper. – Ridley Scott
I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses. – Robert Kennedy
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ‘Facts’. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. – Thomas Hobbes
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable. – Saul David
Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. – Talcott Parsons
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong. – Thomas Fuller
I don’t care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up? – Susan Orlean
There’s a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians’ talking points, that’s dangerously simple. I don’t know a better way to say it. And there’s usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable. – Seth Gordon
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist. – Steven Pinker
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. – Talcott Parsons
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life. – Wilhelm Wundt
I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. I’m into astronomy and love to learn about new facts. – Sonu Nigam
With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it’s getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story. – Walter Cronkite
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, ‘Keep your facts, I’m going with the truth.’ – Stephen Colbert
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. – William Robertson Smith
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests – not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life. – Will Smith
Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products – fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they’re relatively undifferentiated. – Tim O’Reilly
Am I a liberal or conservative? I’m neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I’d like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me. – Soledad O’Brien
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. – Thomas Sowell
It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that’s not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. – Stephen Colbert
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. – Talcott Parsons
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances. – Talcott Parsons
Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses. – Simon Greenleaf
