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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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The fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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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 are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Junius

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

Faulkner, William

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

John Gunther

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

John Dewey

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

Mark Twain

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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Brackell, Fogg

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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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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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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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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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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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