Factual Quotes - Page 6

• The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Past, Substance, May

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• I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

  Henry R. Luce

  Epic, Triviality, Should

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• His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fidelity, Invention, Should

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

  Glenway Wescott

  Confused, Home, Human Nature

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• Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Would Be, Moral Beliefs, Facts

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.

  Saul Kripke

  Choices, Gaps, Facts

  "Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers". Book by Saul Kripke, 2011.

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• Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.

  Dave Gorman

  World, Comedy, Remarkable

  2004 In Varsity, 23 Jan.

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• It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.

  Casey Spooner

  War, Years, Three

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• This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

  Martin Bashir

  Two, People, Literature

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• We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, School, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.114

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• The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

  Hannah Arendt

  Truth, Real, Lying

  "Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism", www.openculture.com. January 24, 2017.

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• Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

  Jane Goodall

  Spiritual, Demand, Proof

  Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman (1999). “Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Needs, World, Vantage Point

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• The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Campaigns

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Fantasy, Life Is

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• The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.

  Peter Medawar

  Thinking, Law, Information

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• 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.

  Gerhard Richter

  Names, Information, Aliens

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.

  Robert Genn

  Titles, Pure

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• The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Average, Trying

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (1993). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, Touchstone

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• Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.

  Ann Shulgin

  School, Government, Police

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• The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.

  Jacques Derrida

  Men, Limits, Infinity

  Jacques Derrida (1982). “Margins of Philosophy”, p.123, University of Chicago Press

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• The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.

  John Dos Passos

  Book, Writing, Reality

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual and accurate and as unemotional as I could, and let readers make their own judgments on what happened. And, in fact, that's how I write poetry. I'm trying to present the reader with the experience itself, not with my commentary on it. So I adopted a style that I'd hoped would let me accomplish that.

  Dan Burt

  Writing, Ego, Style

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly to admit that factual inequality would justify unequal treatment, and the proof that some differences do, in fact, exist would not be long in forthcoming. It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Law, Essence

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 6 : Equality, Value and Merit, 1960.

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• In my case, I made the decision early on that I was going to be very open about the book and claim upfront that each of the stories was based on my life experience. I think my reasoning goes back to what I was saying earlier, about wanting the book to be "more than a book," that I wanted the reader to feel a little unsettled about what they were reading: there's a core of factual truth here.

  Leslie Pietrzyk

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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