Facts Quotes

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not...

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unex...

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ough...

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matt...

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you...

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to piece...

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries h...

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of ...

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he i...

Isn't there a flaw in the logic of that phrase - speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn't...

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely iso...

Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts...

We have no authoritative figure, no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow whom we all listen to and tr...

There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the br...

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they fa...

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

New Rule: America must stop bragging it's the greatest country on earth, and start acting like it. I...

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and r...

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal intro...

If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in l...

A man may live to be as old as Methuselah,’ said Mr. Filer, ‘and may labour all his life for the ben...

Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distort...

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control a...

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Lord Peter Wimsey: Facts, Bunter, must have facts. When I was a small boy, I always hated facts. Tho...

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for fa...

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their addres...

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will co...

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in suc...

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

The truth is more important than the facts.

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

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidde...

Attitudes are more important than facts.

To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, i...

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the...

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this...

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what...

What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion o...

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a scie...

The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jenn...

Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the ...

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon...

Facts are subversive

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic ...

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive...

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only k...

When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the...

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation i...

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

Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not,...

Some things never change

Men often fall in love at first sight

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than t...

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation ...

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances ...

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course...

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We ...

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by w...

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, ...

Sam enjoyed knowledge. The accumulation and distribution of facts gave him a feeling of control, of ...

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts ...

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...

To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering...

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowled...

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bibl...

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

At the very best there are two major problems with ideology. The first is that it does not represent...

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

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

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I ...

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and persona...

The facts are always less than what really happened.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo...

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again, you must...

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so conc...