In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Many a necklace becomes a noose.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads for us.

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.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded.

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Facts are stubborn things.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.