Quotes about facts

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

Adams, Henry Brooks on facts
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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 on facts   

"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 on facts   

"Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts."

Bacon, Francis on facts   

"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. on facts   

"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 on facts   

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

Benjamin, Walter on facts   

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

Bennett, James Gordon on facts   

"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 on facts   

"People can refute your facts, but never your feelings."

Bower, Sharon Anthony on facts   

"Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads."

Brackell, Fogg on facts   

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

Burke, Edmund on facts
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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 on facts   

"I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."

Carlyle, Thomas on facts   

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

Carlyle, Thomas on facts   

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

Carnegie, Dale on facts   

"The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition."

Clark, Richard on facts   

"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 on facts   

"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

Disraeli, Benjamin on facts
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"There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on facts   

"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on facts   

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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 on facts   

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Einstein, Albert on facts
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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."

Eliot, George on facts
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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 on facts
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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 on facts   

"Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts   

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"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts
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"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."

Faulkner, William on facts
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"To some lawyers, all facts are created equal."

Frankfurter, Felix on facts   

"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 on facts
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"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."

Genet, Jean on facts   

"A concept is stronger than a fact."

Gillman, Charlotte P. on facts   

"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 on facts   

"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 on facts   

"Facts are counterrevolutionary."

Hoffer, Eric on facts   

"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 on facts   

"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 on facts   

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

Huxley, Aldous on facts
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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. on facts