Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

The fact is that I loved being in England.

Bertrand Russell

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Bertrand Russell

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

Bertrand Russell

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

Scott Boras

That's up to the individual player. I think any major league player realizes that ... they've got a career, a future and a reputation inside the game. I don't know what a player will have to gain by disclosing historical facts that have nothing to do with his career.

Lincoln Chafee

We really need cold, hard facts and honesty, ... The situation is tough over there.

Sidney Jones

We must wait for more facts before we can make that conclusion.

We must know that thewitness is telling the truth. Give us transparency. Give us the facts.

H. G. Wells

...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

Jay Mohr

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

Jay McInerney

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

Janet Flanner

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

Janet Evanovich

Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.

Etgar Keret

The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.

Ernst Mach

Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.

Ernst Mach

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Fulton J. Sheen

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

Chris Moneymaker

Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.

Hayden Panettiere

Beauty is an opinion not a fact

Hans Kung

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

Henry David Thoreau

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Henry David Thoreau

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

Henry David Thoreau

I would stand upon facts.

Jean Genet

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Jennifer Coolidge

Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.

Gifford Pinchot

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

Harper Lee

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

Halle Berry

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

Ian Paisley

I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman

Howard Nemerov

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

Hosea Ballou

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Hannah Arendt

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

James Bryant Conant

A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.