Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ward Churchill

Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.

W. S. Gilbert

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

W. H. Auden

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.

Wayne Knight

There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.

Vash Young

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

Stephen Chbosky

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Stephen Colbert

If you repeat it, it's true. If you repeat it, it's true. And through repetition, something becomes true. If you repeat it enough. Until it becomes true. Or do I need to repeat that for you?

Stephen Colbert

I'm not a fan of the facts. Facts change; my opinion never does.

Stephen Colbert

You don't need the right facts if you have the right inflection.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Thomas Hobbes

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

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.

Jeffrey Eugenides

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

Jim Bishop

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

Fulton J. Sheen

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

Jerome Bruner

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.

Jeannette Walls

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

Jeremy Irons

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable

George Saunders

I'm comfortable with anything after the fact.

Jeff Miller

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants

Jim Harrison

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

Jerry Spinelli

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

Emma Bonino

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

Ernst Haas

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

Gifford Pinchot

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.