Motivational Quotes

Facts

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

- Serling, Rod

Best Quotes about Facts

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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

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

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

Faulkner, William

People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say,Where? What? and turn away.

Rossetti, Christina

The fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Mark Twain

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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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A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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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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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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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'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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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Harper Lee

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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 do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Danish

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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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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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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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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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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 deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Carnegie, Dale