“The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.” FactsEyeArtistDiesTurnsImaginationMereDetailsBeing TrueRumorCelestial Book:Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool
“A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.” IfsLooksFactsMightCapableBeing TrueComparisonHypothesisVerificationRefutation Book:Collected Papers Source: Collected Papers
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.” NeedsFactsHappenedAdventureShadowMereEndureForgottenTalesBeing TrueDustAshesSandman Author:Neil Gaiman
“I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.” ThinkingFactsWould BeStuffStageProudMusicianAthleteBeing TrueInjury Author:Paul Stanley
“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanCountryFactsStoriesFeelingsMemoriesFictionHappenedFindingsDistanceDetailsVersionsBeing TrueConquerParadiseWildernessTransformedSad Story Author:Jayne Anne Phillips
“No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.” MatterFactsLevelsDealsEnvironmentParticularBehaviorConsciousEconomicsBeing TrueInstanceUnconsciousOrganismsSinkingPragmaticGeneralities Author:Gregory Bateson
“Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on only one possible line of explanation, - not that I see any way of elucidating all the new phenomena I regard as genuine, but because it seems probable I may shed a light on some of those phenomena. All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some way continuous; and certain facts, plucked as it were from the very heart of nature, are likely to be of use in our gradual discovery of facts which lie deeper still.” WayHeartKindMayStillsFactsUseLightSeemsMightLyingCertainUniverseLinesKnownDiscoveryRegardDeeperGenuineAll KindsBeing TrueExplanationPhenomenonShedContradicting Author:William Crookes
“I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.” FactsTurnsPleasureAudienceBeing TruePredictionsGore Author:Al Gore
“Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.” IfsKnowsMenWantGivingBelieveMayRealFactsHelpingMightUniverseNaturalAnswersChristianityHonestAccountsClaimsMedicineBeing TrueHelpfulHonest ManUntruePatents Author:C. S. Lewis