Margaret Fuller Quotes

There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

But facts are facts and flinch not.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.