Facts Quotes

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

Facts are not interesting to me.

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than another thing.... Yet what were history if he did not exaggerate it? How comes it that history never has to wait for facts, but for a man to write it? The ages may go on forgetting the facts never so long, he can remember two for every one forgotten. The musty records of history, like the catacombs, contain the perishable remains, but only in the breast of genius are embalmed the souls of heroes.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.

Facing facts is always empowering.

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

Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one thing to excess; they know nothing else. Pursuing facts too doggedly and unimaginatively, they miss all the charming things that are not facts. ... Too much learning, like too little learning, is an unpleasant and dangerous thing.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

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

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.

Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.

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

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

In the course of a healthy debate, we prioritize different goals, and the different means of reaching them. But without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

The same facts impress us differently.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and repossession, and suffer his reason and feelings to determine for themselves; and that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of man, and generously enlarge his view beyond the present day.

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.