2,590 Quotes About Facts

The past is made up of facts, the present is what we are dealing with and the future is just hope.

It doesn't hurt if I don't know the truth, what hurts is that I know is not the truth.

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.

Objectivity of truth, reality, facts, data - they matter; otherwise, you have the 'good guys', the moral persons, in the name of what they call justice, in a fight against what they call injustice, unwittingly adopting the roles of oppressors by persecuting the innocent.

We born alone,we all die alone.

Everything is an opinion until one strives to make it their own reality -- and vice-versa at times too.

Believing some facts depends on believing some facts.

These are our realities, and, like our ancestors of fifty thousand years ago, if we--as a species rather than as an individual--are uninformed or careless, or indifferent to the Facts (emphasis mine), then survival as a species is in serious doubt." ~~John D. MacDonald, Reading for Survival. c. 1987