True Fact Quotes

• The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling and understanding. The blues can be about anything pertaining to the facts of life. The blues call on God as much as a spiritual song do.

  Willie Dixon

  Song, Understanding, Feelings

  "I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story".

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• Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Real, Believe, Knowledge

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• Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.

  Scott Adams

  Truth, Reality, Perception

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• You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

  Stephen Fry

  Beautiful, Children, Nice

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• There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

  Stephen Fry

  Nice, Mean, Way

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Magazines

  "Tinselworm". Documentary, Comedy, 2008.

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• It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Real, Yesterday, Essentials

  Doug Jenness, Vladimir Ilích Lenin, Ernest Mandel, Socialist Workers Party. National Education Dept (1985). “Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution”, Pathfinder Pr

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• It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn't it.

  Josephine Tey

  Thinking, Ideas, Annoyed

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• I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.

  Woody Allen

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• Amber London is a political rapper, a preaching rapper who speaks true facts and not just nonsense.

  SpaceGhostPurrp

  Rapper, Political, Amber

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

  Michael Lewis

  Facts, Strange, Folly

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The damaged love the damaged. True fact.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Facts

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Snuff”, p.25, Random House

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• Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations

  Benjamin Rush

  Mean, Science, Men

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• It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sports, Science, Interesting

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• [Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. ... The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Self, Two

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.362, Ballantine Books

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• Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Truth, Taken, Science

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• To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Media Control, Sound, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.274, Cambridge University Press

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• Angels are totally real. Tinkerbell has a hot ass. Wendigos exist. It's all true. Satan is blonde. True fact.

  Misha Collins

  Real, Angel, Blonde

  "'Supernatural': Misha Collins says the darndest things" by Marisa Roffman, screenertv.com. March 28, 2010.

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• Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.

  Jack Ruby

  People, Boards, World

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• In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or flattened out. The danger, especially of distortion, is particularly great in the case of orgonomy. We must be scientific, we cannot be political in these matters. And I personally declare that I will be the first to fight with all my strength, with whatever I've got against such a distortion of our principles.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Truth, Fighting, Profound

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• In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

  Don DeLillo

  People, Facts, Crisis

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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