Motivational Quotes

Facts

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

- John Dewey

Best Quotes about Facts

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

John Gunther

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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

Faulkner, William

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

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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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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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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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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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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Harper Lee

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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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 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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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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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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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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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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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 counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Junius

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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

Brackell, Fogg

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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