Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit. – Alan Greenspan
In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true facts behind the story and if people really carried on like that in those days. So I began to read proper history books, and found that they did! – Alison Weir
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. – Bliss Carman
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable. – Abraham Robinson
Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear. – Barney Frank
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. – Alexander Herzen
Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion. – Benjamin N. Cardozo
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents… I try to get inside my stories. – Ben Mezrich
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. – Alberto Giacometti
As the facts change, change your thesis. Don’t be a stubborn mule, or you’ll get killed. – Barry Sternlicht
No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much. – Ethan Canin
Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us. – Evgeny Morozov
I don’t think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts. – Martin Bashir
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. – Moshe Sharett
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. – Francis Parker Yockey
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. – Gore Vidal
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. – Chauncey Wright
Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it. – P. J. O’Rourke
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force. – Nancy Cartwright
When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow’s ‘One Two Three … Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.’ – Mark Frauenfelder
The grand jury system – not just in Ferguson, but nationwide – needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot – based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry. – Donna Brazile
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective. – Francis Parker Yockey
I often debate liberals on Fox News Channel who tend to start yelling and attacking when they run out of facts or common sense. I suppose these folks figure if they bow up and get in our faces, we’ll just back down and see the world their way. – Mike Gallagher
