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Famous Facts Quotes

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. β€” Richard Posner

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. β€” Stephen King

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. β€” Jessamyn West

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. β€” Tom Clancy

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. β€” Ulysses S. Grant

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. β€” Tom Wolfe

Facts are many, but the truth is one. β€” Rabindranath Tagore

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. β€” Mark Twain

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. β€” Shannon Alder

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. β€” Neil Gaiman

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. β€” Mark Twain

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. β€” John Hersey

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. β€” William Faulkner

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979 β€” Kinky Friedman

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. β€” Edna O'Brien

Short Facts Quotes

  • Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. β€” Marcus Aurelius
  • There are no facts, only interpretations. β€” Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. β€” Lewis Grizzard
  • Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. β€” Aldous Huxley
  • And I also appreciate the fact that, hell, you can kiss my ass! β€” Stone Cold Steve Austin
  • Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. β€” Mark Twain
  • Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. β€” Ivan Pavlov
  • Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. β€” William James
  • Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. β€” Nikki Giovanni
  • In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings. β€” Joe Strummer

Facts Image Quotes

Facts quote Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fac
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. - Soren Kierkegaard quote

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. β€” Soren Kierkegaard

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. - Victor Hugo quote

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. β€” Victor Hugo

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan quote

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. β€” Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Facts quote Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
When the facts change, I change my mind. - John Maynard Keynes quote

When the facts change, I change my mind. β€” John Maynard Keynes

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact. - Thomas Troward quote

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact. β€” Thomas Troward

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain quote

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. β€” Mark Twain

Facts quote Education is not the learning of facts, it's rather the training of the mind to think.
Education is not the learning of facts, it's rather the training of the mind to think.
Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan. - Simon Sinek quote

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan. β€” Simon Sinek

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers quote

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. β€” Will Rogers

In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles. - Keith David quote

In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles. β€” Keith David

Facts quote Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one wi
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made. - Gene Siskel quote

In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made. β€” Gene Siskel

The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright quote

The truth is more important than the facts. β€” Frank Lloyd Wright

New facts often trigger new ideas - T.L. Osborn quote

New facts often trigger new ideas β€” T.L. Osborn

Facts quote Sometimes you got to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they used to be.
Sometimes you got to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they used to be.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. - Albert Einstein quote

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. β€” Albert Einstein

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. - Bertrand Russell quote

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. β€” Bertrand Russell

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. - Arthur C. Clarke quote

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. β€” Arthur C. Clarke

Facts quote Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact. - Helen Reddy quote

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact. β€” Helen Reddy

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders. - Denis Diderot quote

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders. β€” Denis Diderot

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. - Friedrich Nietzsche quote

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. β€” Friedrich Nietzsche

Facts quote There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. - Thomas A. Edison quote

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. β€” Thomas A. Edison

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. - Robert Staughton Lynd quote

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. β€” Robert Staughton Lynd

Facts quote Never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Fiction And Reality Quotes

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. β€” Donna J. Haraway

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion β€” Donna J. Haraway

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. β€” Chris Chocola

Facts quote A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you ha
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy. β€” Isak Dinesen

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction. β€” Janet Leigh

The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's strong enough, and your spell is strong enough, then you become, like, ultra-magnetic and then everything comes to you. β€” Watkin Tudor Jones

Facts quote Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional. β€” Wolfgang Petersen

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. β€” Yann Martel

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. β€” Jean Baudrillard

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event. β€” Brock Yates

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More Facts Quotes

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. - Joseph A. Schumpeter quote

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. β€” Joseph A. Schumpeter

The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless. - Peter Drucker quote

The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless. β€” Peter Drucker

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. - William James quote

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. β€” William James

Interesting fact: a shark will only attack you if you’re wet. - Sean Lock quote

Interesting fact: a shark will only attack you if you’re wet. β€” Sean Lock

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. β€” Sigmund Freud

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead. β€” Nelson Mandela

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. β€” Fred Hampton

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else. β€” Kendrick Lamar

God's Word never fails. He will always heal you if you dare to believe Him. Men are searching everywhere today for things with which they can heal themselves, and they ignore the fact that the Balm of Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22) is within easy reach. β€” Smith Wigglesworth

It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars. β€” Mark Ruffalo

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. β€” Henry David Thoreau

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period. β€” Prince Charles

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. β€” Abraham Maslow

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. β€” Robert Fulghum

Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges. β€” Ida Tarbell

If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless. β€” William Wilberforce

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