Best Factual Quotes
108 Factual quotes by 97 unique authors
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It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the…
— Paul Feyerabend
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching…
— Rose Macaulay
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The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share…
— Carl Gustav Hempel
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I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to…
— Anne Sexton
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I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had
— Tony Abbott
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Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and…
— Unknown Author
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Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT;…
— Josef Albers
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I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.
— Marcus Brigstocke
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I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating…
— Henry R. Luce
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The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in…
— A.S.A. Harrison
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I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.
— Jan Morris
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Sunstein said government agents ‘might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts…
— Cass Sunstein
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As factual and thoughtful literature began to seep in, against the Nazis' will, and replace the reams of Nazi propaganda, I began to see the…
— Unknown Author
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While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of…
— Jonathan Dimbleby
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Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some…
— Aaron Scharf
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You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking…
— David Brock
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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author…
— Douglas Coupland
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Change no man’s religion, change no man’s politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has and what he…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.
— Johnny Ball
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Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the…
— Pat Ament
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Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable…
— Rob Brezsny
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Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is no…
— Julian Baggini
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In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical,…
— A.J. Ayer
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We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged—it is barely tolerated.
— Warren Berger
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