Motivational Quotes

Facts

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

Best Quotes about Facts

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say,Where? What? and turn away.

Rossetti, Christina

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.

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

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

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

James, William

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Serling, Rod

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Faulkner, William

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Harper Lee

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

Proverb, Danish

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

Carlyle, 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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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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

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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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

John Dewey

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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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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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The fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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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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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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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.