I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future. – Jimmy Carter
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. – John Ruskin
Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn’t have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so. – Jay Parini
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I’ve been teaching myself computer graphics, so I’m reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. – Jack Prelutsky
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. – John Henry Newman
If you’re saying something that people don’t want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they’re so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex. – Jeremy Grantham
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one. – Imre Lakatos
Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity. – Ivan Pavlov
Fluid intelligence doesn’t look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. – Jamais Cascio
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. – Joseph Stalin
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject. – Ibrahim Babangida
Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources. – J. D. Hayworth
When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts. – Jo Brand
If I’m a conservative, I’ll generally watch Fox. If someone’s liberal, they’ll generally watch MSNBC. They’ll basically learn a set of facts that are completely distinct from one another. They’ll get their views validated. – Jeb Bush
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. – Johan Huizinga
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs
Foucault’s genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed. – Ian Hacking
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never… occupy a place in contemporary literature. – Italo Calvino
Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. – Ivan Pavlov
Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal. – Iain McGilchrist
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren’t so different. – Amy Waldman
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. – Charles Darwin
There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis. – John Gregory Dunne
