The world is made up of facts, not things.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The facts of things do not store well. They rot and fall apart. But the stories we tell last and even grow.”

— Ananda Braxton-Smith

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

— Geoffrey Wolff

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

— Thomas Huxley

Remember we live in a world where facts matter less than how you present them.

— Philip DeFranco

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will…

— Steve Jobs

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of…

— John Cusack

Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about…

— Andre Aciman

The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as…

— Anthony W. Ivins

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity…

— Anonymous

The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up…

— Anthony Kiedis

My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly…

— Robert Benchley

You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S. gives Byron…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green