Motivational Quotes

Facts

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

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

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 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

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

John Dewey

Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Smith, Sydney

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.

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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.

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

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We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.

Smith, F. Marion

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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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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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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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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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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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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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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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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunther

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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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

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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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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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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Proverb, Danish

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

Harper Lee

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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

Updike, John

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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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The fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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