Motivational Quotes

Facts

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

- Scott, Charles Prestwich

Best Quotes about Facts

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Harper Lee

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

Mark Twain

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

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

James, William

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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Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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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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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Faulkner, William

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

John Gunther

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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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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 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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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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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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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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

Proverb, Danish

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

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

John Dewey

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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