To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

“To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one…

— Erik Wemple

The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the…

— Will Oldham

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every…

— Walter Isaacson

“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity…

— Christina Engela

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

— Carl Gustav Hempel

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring,…

— Toni Cade Bambara

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species'…

— E. O. Wilson

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

— John Shelby Spong

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered…

— Terry Eagleton

For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain…

— Glenway Wescott