Quotation Explorer - 'Facts'

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. - Dr. Thomas Fuller
Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. - George Orwell
Don't confuse stories with facts. ...When you generate stories in the blink of an eye, you can get so caught up in the moment the you begin to believe your stories are facts. - Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Adams
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. - John Burroughs
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. - Thomas A. Edison
Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death. - Santosh Kalwar
Facts are the enemy of truth. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Anyone can follow a crowd.It's the leader that follows the facts. - Richard Diaz
Facts do not become historical evidence until someone thinks up something for them to prove or disprove. - Cary Carson
To dive in the darkness, I should dive in the truth, then in images of the world..., then facts, then in books, then listening, then in short stories... that's how I write the horror. It's very complicated. - Deyth Banger
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. - Martin Henry Fischer
The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. - E. H. Carr
What counted was not the facts but the fears. - Max Lerner
Facts are much more malleable than prejudices. - Theodore Dalrymple
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. - Mark Twain
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. - John Dewey
Facts give way when faith is activated. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Comments are free but facts are sacred. - C. P. Scott
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. - William James
[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections. - Niels Bohr
Paranoia means having all the facts. - William S. Burroughs
Scientists are those who change facts - Farid F. Ibrahim
Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts. - Alice Miller
They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything. - Joseph Conrad
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! - Matt Groening
Facts & figures go to the brain. And, the brain tends to forget . Stories go straight to the heart. They make us feel. And, the heart remembers. - Dawn Gluskin
We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts. - DaShanne Stokes
The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts! - Noel Coward Sir
Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow - Stewart Stafford
After all, it isn't the facts of one's environment, but one's attitude toward them, that determines whether one will be defeated or victorious. - David Hawkins
Everything opens a new door, a book opens a new door, facts open a new door. So choose your favourite thing and I promise it will open a door. - Deyth Banger
Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge. - Elaine Ostrach Chaika
Give me the facts and I will determine my own truths. - Tanjlisa Marie
Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life. - Elizabeth Blackwell
Facts are never as salient as feelings. - Glenn Hodges
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them - William Lawrence Bragg
If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count. - Cynthia Stewart-Copier
History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted. - Toba Beta
When creativity is seen as more important than facts, we will find ourselves in a world where problems are solved more often than spoken of. - Tarryn Tomlinson
Attitude and faith create facts. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
but even the facts do not always tell the truth - Paul Auster
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. - Mark Twain
Mastering facts is knowledge. Mastering knowledge is wisdom. - Debasish Mridha
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. - Ambrose Bierce
The facts about our past are powerless against the blood of Jesus and the Truth of His Word. - Joyce Meyer
I have zero respect for knowledge, that’s what computers are for. Imagination is the kicker because imagination can extrapolate, create and solve, Knowledge is just facts and shit. Mostly irrelevant.Kego O'Grady in The Navigator By - Steve Merrick
True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom. - Debasish Mridha
Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion. - Carol Ann Duffy
I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them,... - Dodie Smith
And if ever you need encouragement, remember at least two sober facts which nobody can rationally deny: that you are a new and unique living force in nature, and that you can, by taking thought and pursuing it, become more and more intensely alive. - John Steeksma
Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. - David O. McKay
As everyone knows, it is a thousand times easier to reconstruct the facts of what happened at a certain time than its intellectual atmosphere. The atmosphere is reflected not in official events but, most conspicuously, in small, personal episodes... - Zweig, Stefan
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. - Charles McCabe
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the we disbelieve we call theories. - Felix Cohen
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry Adams
He knows all the facts, and he's against all the solutions. - Robert F. Kennedy
Stories require faith, not facts. - T A Barron
Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning. - Marlo Thomas
The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation. - Sandra L. Schneider
I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news-- With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. - E.M. Forster
There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments. - Alva Noë
Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom. - Graham O'Connell
Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) - Christopher Nolan
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable. - John H. Alexander
Beliefs are often imposed or spontaneously created thoughts that cannot be supported by facts. - Debasish Mridha
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. - Jules Verne
Feelings have more to do with the story you tell yourself than the facts. - Marilyn Suttle
coincidence is not just only a road to facts but also a call to ponder - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I Speculate on the origins of the universe .But in reality i believe the true facts are those of simple origins.And the universe is for sure out there. - Charlie waud
Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths. - Dave Champion
Facts are stupid things. - Ronald Reagan
Never give up and never face the facts. - Ruth Gordon
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. - Alain de Botton
The baby, not too young to start knowing the ledge, the cold truth, the life-and-death facts of it all. 'What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?' The baby, understanding perhaps it was purely rhetorical, made no attempt to answer this question. - Michael Chabon
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. - Gordon W. Allport
Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294 - Michael Benzehabe
Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings. - Anthony Liccione
To some lawyers all facts are created equal. - Felix Frankfurter
One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts. - Quentin R. Bufogle
Facts? What are facts? I only know imagination! - C. JoyBell C.
I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts.
Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées.Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking. - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention. - Sandra Lee Dennis
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. - Jawaharlal Nehru
Facts are what matter, but how do you know which are the true ones? - Marty Rubin
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. - Francis Parkman
Random words, heard by chance, turn to hard facts in the eyes of a man of imagination, if there's any fire burning in his heart. - Friedrich von Schiller
Your dreams are your desires but life takes you down to facts. - Rashi Bishnoi
These, he said gravely, are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. - Aldous Huxley
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. - Bernard M. Baruch
Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts. - Will Cuppy
The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa. - Alessandro Volta
By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts! - Anonymous
Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts. - Harper Lee
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts. - Bryant McGill
To hell with facts! We need stories! - Ken Kesey