1,424 Quotes About Fact

Marriage: In India a fact . In other parts of the world an obsession.

If you deny it you will delay it, if you accept it you will act on it.

While facts do kill ignorance, ignoring facts does not kill them.

My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision to write. Though he was a reader, he was not a lover of fiction, because fiction is not true, and for that flaw it was forever inferior to fact. If reading fiction was a waste of time, so was the writing of it. Why is it, I wonder, that humor didn't count? Wodehouse, for one, whom both of us loved, was a flawless fiction writer.

To become an effective radiation researcher, you must develop the ability to discern fact from fiction.

But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.

There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible to detach the observer from the observed. A great deal of scientific truth has later turned out to be its observer's fiction. It is irrational to assume that this is no longer the case.

It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.

The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?