Motivational Quotes

Facts

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Facts

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

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

Proverb, Danish

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

Samuel McChord Crothers

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

John Gunther

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.

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

Junius

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

James, William

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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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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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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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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Genet, Jean

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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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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 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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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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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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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Bower, Sharon Anthony

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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Harper Lee

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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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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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 fatal futility of Fact.

James, Henry

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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