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108 Factual quotes by 97 unique authors

I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary… — James Garner
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations,… — John Desmond Bernal
An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than… — Freeman Tilden
People leave because of their own overts and withholds. That is the factual fact and the hard-bound rule. A man with a clean heart can’t… — L. Ron Hubbard
Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty… — Ann Coulter
I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth. — Shane Carruth
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history. — John Shelby Spong
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that… — Black Francis
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account… — Ernest Hemingway
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not… — Glenway Wescott
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by… — Friedrich August von Hayek
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with… — Gerhard Richter
Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement. — Robert Genn
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the… — Norman Vincent Peale
Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was… — Ann Shulgin
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort… — John Dos Passos
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. — Carlos Fuentes
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect -… — Jennifer Granholm
Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I… — Jonathan Safran Foer
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to… — John Malkovich
It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great… — Talcott Parsons
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of… — Talcott Parsons
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. — Boris Pasternak
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell

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