Motivational Quotes

Facts

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.

Best Quotes about Facts

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

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

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

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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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Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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

Mark Twain

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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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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 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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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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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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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Proverb, Danish

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

John Dewey

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Harper Lee

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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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.