Motivational Quotes

Facts

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

Best Quotes about Facts

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Junius

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

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

John Dewey

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Laut, Agnes C.

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

10.

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

17.

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

Faulkner, William

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

24.

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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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 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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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Harper Lee

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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'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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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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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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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.