Motivational Quotes

Facts

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

Best Quotes about Facts

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

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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

People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Faulkner, William

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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

John Dewey

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

Brackell, Fogg

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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Danish

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

Harper Lee

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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Junius

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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