Motivational Quotes

Facts

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

- Harper Lee

Best Quotes about Facts

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Bacon, Francis

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

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.

The fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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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Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Harper Lee

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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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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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

John Gunther

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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Brackell, Fogg

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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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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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