Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sinclair Lewis

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

Sinclair Lewis

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

Snoop Dogg

The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it's time.

Socrates

Go wherever the facts lead.

Michael Moorcock

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

Michael Moore

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I know I’m Charonte and we defer to our females, but you have to respect the fact that I’m Charonte and we protect our females to the end. You be my female. I be protecting. (Xedrix)

Neil Gaiman

I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.

Margaret Sanger

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Michael Lewis

Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

Michael Faraday

I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.

Michael Bloomberg

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

Maurice Allais

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

Maya Angelou

Tell the truth and not the facts.

Maya Angelou

Facts can obscure the truth.

Marilynne Robinson

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Lee Child

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

John Updike

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

James Jeans

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

Mark Spitz

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

Marilyn Ferguson

Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.

Peter Drucker

No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.

Peter Drucker

The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.

Peter Drucker

One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.

Nigella Lawson

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

Nicholson Baker

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

Nikola Tesla

So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet...

Niels Bohr

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

Nat Friedman

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Things always become obvious after the fact

Mark Twain

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!