Motivational Quotes

Facts

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Facts

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

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

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

Harper Lee

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

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.

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

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Faulkner, William

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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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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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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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 em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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 fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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

John Dewey

30.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Junius

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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

37.

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

Mark Twain

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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