Motivational Quotes

Facts

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Facts

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

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

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

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

Junius

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

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

James, William

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

Faulkner, 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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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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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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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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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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Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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

Harper Lee

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

Mark Twain

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 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