Motivational Quotes

Facts

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.

Best Quotes about Facts

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.

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Faulkner, William

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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

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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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

John Dewey

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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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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Harper Lee

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The fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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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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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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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 counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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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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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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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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 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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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