Factual Information Quotes

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

You never ask the public individual to decide. You can teach them anything, particularly the truth. But never ask them to decide.

Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.

When I speak, I speak facts, and if you're getting mad, it's because you know it's the truth.

So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.

We have a responsibility to show the public the kinds of truths that they don't see on the TV news or the Hollywood film.

Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual.

A fancifully fancyless medium of unvarnished news.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.

I state facts all the time.

The true historian … reveres the fact rather than any theory.

I have to remind myself - I think the population of the United States has been subjected to the most sophisticated form of propaganda and mind control that any group of people has been exposed to in a very, very long time. It's difficult for people in this country to get any kind of factual information and to make intelligent decisions based on them.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

The facts are facts and records are records.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

I would never lie to anyone about history.

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

There are no secrets in science.

I tend to read non-fiction.