Top 100 Good Facts Quotes
#1. So many things people say may seem so good and right; you only have to think twice to know what is so good and right!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#2. No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
James D. Watson
#3. Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning, and we have not yet reached this point for most of medicine.
Lewis Thomas
#4. The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.
Simon Blackburn
#5. As long as the Good News remains a matter of abstract facts, it will have little more effect on your life than your insurance policy has on the way you drive.
Matthew Jacoby
#6. I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.
George M. Church
#7. Sometimes smart people can be a special kind of stupid. The kind where they know so many facts and are so good at saying "no one would ever do that" that they somehow manage to convince themselves the world is going to care about what they think.
Mira Grant
#8. Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.
Charles Platt
#9. A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.
Imre Kertesz
#10. When it comes to bending the truth to assist a story's plot versus staying completely true to the facts, we can assure you any dramatist will always select the former. Mark Twain's old saying "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story" still reigns in Hollywood.
James Morcan
#11. Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.
John Szarkowski
#12. The fact is that there is nothing wrong with most of us that a good, clean change of attitude and some new skills wouldn't fix.
Richard Bandler
#13. And, of course, one of the great true facts of the world is this: for every old-timer who dies, there's a new old-timer coming along. And a good story never dies; it is always passed down.
Stephen King
#14. I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
Stephen Leacock
#15. I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.
Shunroku Hata
#16. People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
Robert Keith Leavitt
#17. No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.
Barbara Kingsolver
#18. Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
Finley Peter Dunne
#19. Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Tiger Woods
#20. So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
Floyd Abrams
#22. If the only common thread you have as an industrial company is the fact that you think you're well managed, you can still be a pretty good company, but you're not going to be a dominant company, a competitive company over time.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#23. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
Colin Powell
#24. I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood.
Paul Haggis
#25. At this point, any scientist, doctor, journalist, or policy maker who denies or minimizes the importance of a whole food, plant-based diet for individual and societal well-being simply isn't looking clearly at the facts. There's just too much good evidence to ignore anymore.
T. Colin Campbell
#26. It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
J.B. Priestley
#28. I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.
Leanne Pooley
#29. Send me the article beforehand, don't forget, and try and let it be free from nonsense. Facts, facts, facts. And above all, let it be short. Good-bye.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#30. The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a heroic gift of freedom - proclaims the film's respect for facts and truths that can't be squeezed into a smooth narrative.
Richard Corliss
#31. What I seek to do is to establish the facts as I see them, or as I understand them, and to engage in constructive dialogue to get good outcomes.
Cory Bernardi
#32. Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.
Rebecca West
#33. To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sightedly for the good of others, they achieve their own prosperity, too.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
#34. You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.
Justin Townes Earle
#35. I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.
Gina McKee
#36. Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
John Ridley
#37. And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.
Susan May Warren
#38. Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.
Julius Charles Hare
#39. The fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
William J. Clinton
#40. Well, it is not a good world
nobody can say that it is, save those who wilfully blind themselves to facts. How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? The wonder is not that it is so bad, but that there should be any good left in it.
H. Rider Haggard
#41. It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.
Gilbert Ryle
#42. The most elementary of good manners ... at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.
Laura Esquivel
#43. It's a good fact to meet a stranger,but unfortunate when they have bad intentions in meeting you after the fact. Just know you have been a loyal from the beginning.
Touaxia Vang
#44. The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."
Jack Tatum
#45. Be good to the people on your way up the ladder cause you'll ,meet them on your way down.
Robert Junior
#46. Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.
Nathaniel Branden
#47. Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.
Ward Churchill
#48. The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.
Rob Bell
#49. The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.
Jack McDevitt
#50. In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
David Hockney
#51. Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or hogwash.
Leo Burnett
#52. It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
Bill Vaughan
#53. Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.
Paul Simon
#54. Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings and issues, becomes, by those very facts, unappealing. Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.
David Richo
#55. Facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. Good or bad the idea is simply to face the facts. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself without cutting yourself down.
Chogyam Trungpa
#56. I actually grew up watching 'Survivorman' and Bear Grylls. I know that pine needles are a good source of vitamin C and just random facts from watching the stuff.
Nick Robinson
#57. I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
Al Gore
#58. I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's ok now I make good stuff," I need to improve more and more.
Marilou
#59. The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.
Robert Adams
#60. The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.
Charles Buxton
#61. The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.
Ayn Rand
#62. I see no issue with [Donald] Trump spending 48 hours in Scotland.Whether accidental or intentional, the fact that he was there when Britain voted to leave the EU was a good thing for him.
Christopher Michael Cillizza
#63. They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.
Criss Jami
#64. Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping
Dee Hock
#65. If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its images of the good life.
Richard Kearney
#66. That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.
Janette Rallison
#67. A good Policeman/woman looks for crimes. A bad policeman/woman looks for opportunity.
Richard Diaz
#68. Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.
Norman Cousins
#69. I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one.
John Sherman Cooper
#70. Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
Jack London
#71. A good rule for discussion is to use hard facts and a soft voice.
Dorothy Sarnoff
#72. I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature.
Mark Twain
#73. By saying that someone becomes the owner of something, we are referring to a market transaction, while by saying that something is a good belonging to someone, we emphasize the fact that it has been incorporated into the world of someone, of which it has become an integral part.
Michel Callon
#74. Death
If he is a good man, death will be a release;
If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.
Idries Shah
#75. Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!
Charlotte Mason
#76. A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.
Susan Stebbing
#77. In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work ...
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#78. No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God's often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.
Timothy Keller
#79. Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
Alec Baldwin
#80. I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear.
Baba Amte
#81. The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.
Richard Dawkins
#82. There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means only to do good, and almost always does good, in the world, that it is the beacon of liberty and freedom.
Howard Zinn
#83. The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
Bertrand Russell
#84. My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.
Helen Keller
#85. I am egotistical, that I won't deny ... I do think I'm good - in fact, I know I'm good ... but I know that I don't appeal to everybody.
Phil Lynott
#86. The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
Abraham Maslow
#87. A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.
Ani DiFranco
#88. The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.
Evan Esar
#89. Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
William James
#90. What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister] ... to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives.
Nicky Morgan
#91. The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.
Mary Parker Follett
#92. For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
Stephen Graham Jones
#93. It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.
Robin Williams
#94. And if something came along that didn't sound so good, it perhaps didn't always get out there as it should have. But given the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] had the help, nonetheless she knew how to use it. And she used it very effectively.
William A. Rusher
#95. Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.
Ronald Reagan
#96. Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.
Rosie O'Donnell
#98. There was neither good nor bad there. There were just facts. It was life.
W. Somerset Maugham
#99. You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. The good-to-great companies operated in accordance with this principle, and the comparison companies generally did not.
James C. Collins
#100. I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is and I'm not drifting too far away at certain points, then I can play with the idea and take it anywhere I want to.
Scott Walker
