Motivational Quotes

Facts

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

- Scott, Charles Prestwich

Best Quotes about Facts

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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 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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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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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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Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

John Gunther

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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

John Dewey

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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 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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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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

Proverb, Danish

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Harper Lee

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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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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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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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

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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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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 fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Junius

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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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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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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