Motivational Quotes

Facts

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

- Scott, Charles Prestwich

Best Quotes about Facts

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Bennett, James Gordon

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Harper Lee

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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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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Junius

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

John Dewey

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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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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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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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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Brackell, Fogg

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

Faulkner, William