Quotes about Facts
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
— Mark Twain
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
— Maya Angelou
Our philosophies have tended to split the world in two: "science" deals only with "hard facts," while the "arts" are imagined to deal in nebulous questions of inner meanings. Equally, in popular culture, inner feelings and motivations (" discovering who you really are" or "going with your heart") are regularly invoked as the true personal reality over against mere outward "identities.
— NT Wright
What are the facts of history? And do they matter? The importance of this study is more than historical. Establishing that George Washington was a Christian helps to substantiate the critical role that Christians and Christian principles played in the founding of our nation.
— Peter Lillback
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.
— Peter Kreeft
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.
— Chuck Smith
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
— Hippocrates
Indeed, given the facts, the burden of proof is not to prove that Washington was a Christian; the burden of proof is to prove that he was a skeptic who nevertheless sought to act like a Christian believer!
— Peter Lillback
Only Judaism and Christianity are religions of public record, eyewitnessed facts.
— Peter Kreeft