Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry B. Adams

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
Wilhelm Wundt

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
Paul Simon

I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one.
John Sherman Cooper

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
Karl Jaspers

Science is facts.
Henri Poincare

Facts do not speak.
Henri Poincare

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
Margaret Sanger

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.
Deborah Bull

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
Walter Benjamin

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
Jim Bishop

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.
Anatoli Boukreev

The facts are on our side.
Karen Hughes

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
Talcott Parsons

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
Talcott Parsons

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
Talcott Parsons

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
Edward Thorndike

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
Talcott Parsons