Motivational Quotes

Facts

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

- John Dewey

Best Quotes about Facts

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

Benjamin, Walter

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

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

John Gunther

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Brackell, Fogg

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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Faulkner, William

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The fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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

John Dewey

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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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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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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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Harper Lee

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Proverb, Danish

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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 are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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

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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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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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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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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.