Motivational Quotes

Facts

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Facts

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought -- with these I deal.

Thoreau, Henry David

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

Ozick, Cynthia

The fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Vidal, Gore

Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Menninger, Karl A.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no facts at this table.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact.

Laut, Agnes C.

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion

Angell, Norman

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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Adams, John

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Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment.

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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Rogers, Carl

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Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!

Dickens, Charles

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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

Hazlitt, William

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Benjamin, Walter

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The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams

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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Fuller, Thomas

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The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.

Proverb, Danish

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Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts.

Harper Lee

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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Bernard, Claude

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Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.

Bennett, James Gordon

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Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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A fact is like a sack -- it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Faulkner, William

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It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Serling, Rod

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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Roth, Philip

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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say,Where? What? and turn away.

Rossetti, Christina

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One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

Junius

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Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

Brackell, Fogg

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I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Carnegie, Dale

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Bacon, Francis

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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

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What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?

Carlyle, Thomas

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Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

James, William

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Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.

Huxley, Aldous

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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

James, William

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Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Huxley, Aldous