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Best Quotes About Facts (Top 100)
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley -
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou -
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain -
Isn't every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn't there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?
James Agee -
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein -
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Chuck Palahniuk -
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob Marley -
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling -
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Karl Marx -
You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
Will Cuppy -
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
Mark Twain -
It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.
Stephen Colbert -
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.
Harvey Milk -
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—-let the theory go.
Agatha Christie -
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Thomas Wolfe -
To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.
Neal Stephenson -
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
Shimon Peres -
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
D.T. Suzuki -
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
Ivan Pavlov -
To hell with facts! We need stories.
Ken Kesey -
One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.
Stella Gibbons -
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
Jon Kabat-Zinn -
Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.
Stephenie Meyer -
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
Hannah Arendt -
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
William S. Burroughs -
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Emma Goldman -
The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.
John Rawls -
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger -
We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.
Dorothy Height -
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.
Bill Nye -
Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.
Daniel Radcliffe -
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.
Georges Bataille -
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli -
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood -
When the facts change, I change my mind.
John Maynard Keynes -
In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.
Anna Louise Strong -
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
Elsa Schiaparelli -
Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
Carl Lewis -
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers -
The fact that I'm silent doesn't mean I have nothing to say.
Jonathan Carroll -
I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.
Joyce Carol Oates -
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney -
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
Alan Turing -
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
Werner Herzog -
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
Willie Dixon -
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
Lewis Thomas -
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.
David Graeber -
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
Oswald Spengler -
For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.
Alexis Bledel -
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
Emily Carr -
The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.
Jeannette Walls -
Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
Jon Krakauer -
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
Robert Owen -
Seek truth from facts.
Deng Xiaoping -
And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.
Tom Coburn -
In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s about to happen. When you feel helpless, you’re far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.
Chris Hadfield -
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
Henry Miller -
When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.
Charles R. Swindoll -
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell -
I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.
Johnnie Cochran -
Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.
Keith Haring -
There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.
John Scalzi -
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
Robert M. Hutchins -
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one
Clifford Geertz -
There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.
Robert Collier -
There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.
Tom Rob Smith -
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Brian Friel -
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge -
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru -
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson -
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
Alex Haley -
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
Sonny Perdue -
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
Truman Capote -
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
Tryon Edwards -
Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.
Jane Smiley -
Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.
Joseph A. Schumpeter -
Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.
Giorgio Armani -
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins -
Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
Ruth Gordon -
We (the FBI) are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
J. Edgar Hoover -
A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
Dave Allen -
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller -
Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.
Saul Williams -
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
Katharine Graham -
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar -
If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.
Robert M. Pirsig -
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death
Robert Fulghum -
It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?
Walter Lippmann -
In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.
Neil Strauss -
If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell
Carl Sandburg -
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
Donald Knuth -
It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
Edward Lear -
Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.
Maira Kalman -
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Luther Burbank -
We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.
Richard Carlson -
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell
Even More Facts Quotes
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The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
Jacques Ellul -
People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.
Catherine Deneuve -
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
Margaret Sanger -
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.
Anthony Powell -
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
Charles Horton Cooley -
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
Jim Rogers -
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.
Eric Ambler -
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin -
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
Amy Lowell -
I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.
Alessandro Manzoni -
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
Al Gore -
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling -
Attitudes are much more important than facts.
Karl A. Menninger -
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)
Timothy Egan -
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
Ernest Bevin -
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.
Ernst Mayr -
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei -
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory -
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Claude Bernard -
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
John Galsworthy -
You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.
Joan Sutherland -
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.
Philip Roth -
In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.
Richard Hell -
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments テつュ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.
Carol Ann Duffy -
I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.
Jerry Stahl -
If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.
Isocrates -
A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
Edmond Rostand -
The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
Samuel Beckett -
I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.
Shashi Tharoor -
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Mary McCarthy -
While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.
Masaru Emoto -
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.
Cynthia Ozick -
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.
Brendan Gill -
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.
John Adams -
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
Charlotte Bunch -
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
Diane Sawyer -
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith -
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green -
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
David Seabury -
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
William Allen White -
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
Abraham Flexner -
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
Antony Jay -
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes -
I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.
Arthur Goldberg -
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
Jim Bishop -
Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
Robert Graves -
Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
Sydney Smith -
One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws. Why would something so integral to human nature require such vigilant legal protection?
Christopher Ryan -
The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.
Josephine Tey -
The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory -
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
Edward Thorndike -
Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
Hervey Allen -
You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.
Barry Long -
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been
Albert Einstein -
I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
Ajay Naidu -
...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)
Keith Ablow -
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.
Lee Iacocca -
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel— Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
Charles Stuart Calverley -
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman -
What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.
Bernard Bailyn -
A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.
Lord Hailsham -
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
Philip Roth -
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
John Gunther -
Comment is free but facts are sacred.
C. P. Scott -
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton -
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana -
This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.
Arthur Hugh Clough -
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter -
The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.
James P. Hogan -
I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.
Lawrence Clark Powell -
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer -
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White -
I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.
Colin Baker -
We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin g.
Barry Long -
This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.
Brian Perkins -
Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.
Margaret Culkin Banning -
The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat—-I just don't think about it.
Robin Green -
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
Gilbert Ryle -
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.
Alberto Moravia -
We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.
Carsten Juste -
The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming
Arnold Schwarzenegger -
In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.
Brett Somers -
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
Finley Peter Dunne -
The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
Bernard Bailyn -
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
Tryon Edwards -
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Rachel Carson -
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
Bill Vaughan -
Attitudes are more important than facts.
George MacDonald -
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
Peter McWilliams -
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.
David Nicholls -
Education is not the piling on of learning information data facts skills or abilities that's training or instruction but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed
Thomas More -
What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.
Robert Green Ingersoll -
You can't argue with facts. You're not entitled to your own facts.
Steven Levy -
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
William Faulkner -
I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
Henry Van Dyke -
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
Carl Rogers -
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell -
Comment is free but facts are sacred.
Charles Prestwich Scott -
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.
Holly Lisle -
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house
Henri Poincar -
History is but a confused heap of facts.
Lord Chesterfield -
Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
Colin Powell -
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.
Elihu Burritt -
The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.
David Seabury -
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Jessamyn West -
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard -
In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.
Terence -
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.
Giuseppe Mazzini -
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton -
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain -
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Salman Rushdie -
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp -
A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.
Jim Morrison -
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Dr. Joyce Brothers -
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke -
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
David P. Gardner -
When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.
Chester Bowles -
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Thomas Fuller -
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
Harry S. Truman