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Facts Quotes

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.

Sharon Kay Penman

Trust Think Facts Feel Drawing Try

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

Patrick Kavanagh

Speak Facts Know Prove Anything

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Stephen Colbert

Perception Facts Matter Certainty

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

Charles Van Doren

Me Book Facts Hard Lists Memorizing

Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts.

Facts Partnerships Russia Continent

I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

Life Justice Facts Pressure Feel

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Law Independence Facts You Decide

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Believe Facts Easy Nothing Always

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Facts Check Guard Against Us Least

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Death Facts Explain Two Away Cannot

Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.

Sonia Sotomayor

Decision Law Start Facts Judge

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Mind Facts Kind Become Out Laws

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Daily God Great Me Facts Grow

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

Nassau William Senior

Science Great Facts Drawing Long

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

Facts Burden First Side Credibility

Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

Great Support Challenges Facts Now

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Story Facts Lost Newspaper Forever

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

Malcolm Gladwell

Facts High Successful Dyslexic

My music is genuine, and I'm talking about stuff that no one else - no one my age, anyway, in the game - is talking about. Nobody. I'm the only one really stating facts and speaking with real street knowledge.

Music Age Knowledge Game Facts Real

Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible.

Alexandra Petri

Knowledge Facts Thought Possible See

There comes a point in every story where you have got a reservoir of knowledge, and you are then really just adding the substantial new facts to your understanding of it. That is the easiest situation, because you can call on that reservoir, but when you get a sudden story out of nowhere, like ebola, you don't have a reservoir of knowledge.

Knowledge Story Facts Understanding

It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.

Intelligence Looking Facts Resolution

I was a very intelligent kid. I used my intelligence to support my passions. When it came to comic books, I became enthralled in the whole universe. I had to know all the facts and timelines. The whole fictional universe was real to me.

Intelligence Support Me Facts Know

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

Yourself People Face Facts You High

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