Motivational Quotes

Facts

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

- Genet, Jean

Best Quotes about Facts

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

Rossetti, Christina

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

Iacocca, Lee

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

James, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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The fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

John Dewey

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

Brackell, Fogg

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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

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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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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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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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

Proverb, Danish

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Faulkner, William

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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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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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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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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.

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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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