#Facts Quotes

“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”

“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.”

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

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

“You must look at facts, because they look at you.”

“The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.”

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

“It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.”

“But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.”

“...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.”

“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”

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

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

“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.”

“The same facts impress us differently.”

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

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

“The truer the facts the better the fiction.”

“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 must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.”

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

“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.”

“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Facts are stubborn things.”

“Truth is independent of facts always.”

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

“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.”

“Facts are not interesting to me.”

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

“Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.”

“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.”

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

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

“Facts are many, but the truth is one.”

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

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

“A fact may blossom into a truth.”

“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.”

“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.”

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

“The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.”

“Facts can obscure the truth.”

“Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.”

“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.”

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