Not Factual Quotes

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

George W. Bush

#2. I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual.

John Sununu

#3. We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after a sham trial and the case of Muammar Gaddafi, who killed after surrendering in broad daylight, have given enough factual reality to understand the painful truth.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#4. 'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.

Ian Caldwell

#5. The solution is commitment to whatever is in front of you;
Because
It's not always what you wanna do but the options in front of you

Bandile Matsenjwa

#6. Widespread acceptance of a fact is not a proof of its validity.

Dan Brown

#7. While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#8. The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

John Shelby Spong

#9. My hope is that, factual or fabricated, every line in Tsarina leads to a single truth: that when you forget that those you disagree with are people, not just your faceless opposition, you don't end up proving who is right and who is wrong. You end up with a body count.

J. Nelle Patrick

#10. Stories are factual ... If a man and his story are in conflict it is the man who must change ... In America it is the man who matters not the story.

Adam Johnson

#11. In which of these respects the public is more stubborn is an empirical question to be judged from the factual evidence, not something that can be determined by reason alone.

Milton Friedman

#12. 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

#13. People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one.

Craig Venter

#14. A myth, therefore, is true because it is effective, not because it gives us factual information. If, however, it does not give us new insight into the deeper meaning of life, it has failed.

Karen Armstrong

#15. A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Dorothea Lange

#16. It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.

Aimee Mullins

#17. Sex may be a little more factual than love. You know whether it's good or bad. You know whether you liked it or not. You're not going to change your mind about it ten years later.

Iggy Pop

#18. [B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Alan Bennett

#19. That claim was not intended to be a factual statement.

Jon Kyl

#20. Evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity, one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

Michael Shermer

#21. I write what I call "Factual Fiction," whereby my plot, story and characters are not loosely set in history but intrinsically tied to real events, people and places.

Karen A. Chase

#22. I think any film that is based on life or real events you want it to be accurate but what really matters is that it's truthful. That is not always the same thing. You really want to convey the spirit of the enterprise rather than ticking every single factual box.

Lucinda Coxon

#23. Not to understand something is better than misunderstanding it.

Vj Nadar

#24. 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

#25. I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

Dorianne Laux

#26. However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles either.

Robert M. Pirsig

#27. I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

Richard Dawkins

#28. 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

#29. I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

Anne Sexton

#30. When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

John Malkovich

#31. It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

Julia Sawalha

#32. So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality which I sometimes envy but do not possess.

Joan Didion

#33. I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

Tony Abbott

#34. Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

Madeleine L'Engle

#35. Somebody who is purified with life enough would be able to read your feeling before it becomes a word in your mouth. It is not very hard to understand - and you meet people like that. Almost everything is very factual and scientific and not exaggerated.

Karan Bajaj

#36. We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.

Walter Kirn

#37. The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!

Bill Crawford

#38. It is not enough to call yourself a 'free thinker' just because you can change your beliefs. A whole mess of people change their beliefs based on what is fashionable rather than what is factual, which, by always following the crowd, would be the complete opposite of the beauty of a free thinker.

Criss Jami

#39. There's a certain kind of research you have to listen to - the factual stuff, not opinion. Facts are facts. Sugar is sweet - it's not a matter of opinion. It just is.

Paul Rand

#40. Her prettiness was factual and obvious, the way a flag was patriotic or a puppy was cute - not an interesting prettiness, but also not contingent on taste.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#41. They are the humans who are intelligent enough to have insight of every single molecular underpinning of the warmth of love, and yet not let that factual knowledge ruin the romance in a relationship.

Abhijit Naskar

#42. Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry
out a death sentence properly reached.

Antonin Scalia

#43. What resists phenomenology within us--natural being, the 'barbarian' source Schelling spoke of--cannot remain outside phenomenology. The philosopher must bear his shadow, which is not simply the factual absence of future light.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#44. Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is no factual reason to suppose that what is natural is good (or at least better) and what is unnatural is bad (or at least worse).

Julian Baggini

#45. It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in a way through itself, avails itself of the factual resemblance in order to attain to God.

Etienne Gilson

#46. Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.

Bernard Haisch

#47. I have spent my life in a painstaking effort to tell about things as they are to me, so that they will not sound like autobiography but simply like notes, like factual reports.

Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

#48. Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#49. There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Johnny Ball