Factually Quotes

#1. I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [ ... ].

Richard Wright

#2. People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

Grover Norquist

#3. Linux is a leprosy; ... This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#4. We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.

A.J. Ayer

#5. Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.

Jennifer Haigh

#6. And just because something is factually accurate doesn't make it true.

James R. Wells

#7. Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

Charlotte Beers

#8. The embodied soul is eternal in existence, indestructible, and infinite, only the material body is factually perishable, therefore fight O Arjuna.

Anonymous

#9. I highly recommend the approach Marshall Rosenberg details in Nonviolent Communication (2nd Edition 2008), which has essentially three parts: When X happens [described factually, not judgmentally], I feel Y [especially the deeper, softer emotions], because I need Z [fundamental needs and wants].

Rick Hanson

#10. It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many anomalies, and may indeed be factually erroneous.

Hans Eysenck

#11. I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

Malcolm Turnbull

#12. The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

Reza Aslan

#13. Before all that long, you start telling those near to you that you went on interviews that turned out sorry when factually you never even made the phone call.

Daniel Woodrell

#14. Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

Jon Ronson

#15. A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Frank Luntz

#16. That's factually crazy...

Jennifer Egan

#17. Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect."
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(The Rise of Political Correctness)

Angelo Codevilla

#18. Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.

Robert Winston

#19. Often, our beliefs about what is factually right and our beliefs about what is morally right are entirely inextricable.

Kathryn Schulz

#20. It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.

John Taylor Gatto

#21. Stories can be true without being literally and factually true.

Marcus J. Borg

#22. A myth is a story that tells the truth, whether or not the story is factually true.

Chuck Turner

#23. The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

John Szarkowski

#24. A story, no matter how factually true, is still just a story.

Marianne Williamson

#25. Looking at mental health problems the same way we look at other medical problems is factually correct - the best bet for reducing the disabling symptoms and the only way to lessen the stigma and blame that traditionally double or triple the pain.

Mark Vonnegut

#26. We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.

George Takei

#27. Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law - on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.

Laura Wasser

#28. I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

Martin Freeman

#29. The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

David Nicholls

#30. There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.

Jim Crace