Motivational Quotes

Facts

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

- Frankfurter, Felix

Best Quotes about Facts

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

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Carnegie, Dale

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

James, William

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.

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

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

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

John Gunther

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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 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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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

Faulkner, William

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

Junius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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

John Dewey

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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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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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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 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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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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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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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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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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.