Motivational Quotes

Facts

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

Best Quotes about Facts

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

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Bennett, James Gordon

Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

James, William

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

Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

The fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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

10.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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

15.

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

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

Faulkner, William

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

Harper Lee

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

Proverb, Danish

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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Roth, Philip

30.

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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

Brackell, Fogg

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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 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 don't cease to exist because they are ignored.

Huxley, Aldous

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

John Dewey

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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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