Facts Quotes - page 2

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. (Henry Miller)
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. View quote
Mortimer Adler
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. View quote
George Orwell
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I don't even have to exaggerate. View quote
Will Rogers
Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts! View quote
Murray Leinster
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. View quote
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. (Mark Twain)
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. View quote
Edith Hamilton
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. View quote
Karl Marx
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. View quote
Albert Einstein
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. View quote
Sam Levenson
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. View quote
Marc Bloch
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. (Maurice Allais)
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. View quote
William James
Seek Truth from Facts. View quote
Deng Xiaoping
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Science has taught... me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
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