Quotes about Facts

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

What matters most is how you see yourself.

Love is about giving someone the power to break your heart but trusting them not to

Many people will come in and out of your life that will cause you pain, it is your choice to let them continue

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true

Love your haters, they are you biggest fans

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.

What are the facts? Again and again and again—what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history"; what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn’t have the capacity for discerning true facts. That’s why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It’s the best we can do.

"There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington."

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

I believe imagination is stronger than knowledge - that myth is more potent than history.  I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief.  And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Facts don’t persuade, feelings do. And stories are the best way to get at those feelings.

Fax me a fact and I’ll telegram a hologram
or telephone the son of man and tell him he
is done. Leave a message on his answering
machine telling him there are none. God and
I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun.
The factor is me. You remember me.

Doubts...often beget the facts they fear.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.