Fact Quotes
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The smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen. (Quote by - Aldous Leonard Huxley)
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. (Quote by - Socrates)
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. (Quote by - Stephen Covey)
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: ? in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. (Quote by - Arnold H Glasgow)
I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are. (Quote by - Stephen Colbert)
A fact is like a sack --it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place. (Quote by - Luigi Pirandello)
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live." (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. (Quote by - William James)
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. (Quote by - Philip Roth)
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)
There are no facts, only interpretations. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Comment is free but facts are sacred. (Quote by - Charles Prestwich Scott)
A concept is stronger than a fact. (Quote by - Charlotte P. Gillman)
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. (Quote by - Alex Bourne)
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. (Quote by - Arnold H. Glasow)
Faith is the great cop out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts. (Quote by - Kerry Packer)
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. (Quote by - Joey Adams)
Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts. (Quote by - Stephen Colbert)
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. (Quote by - Jean Genet)
I know of no more encouraging fact than the ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Doubts often beget the facts they fear. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
I see myself as a climate change skeptic and a skeptic looks at the evidence and bases conclusions on the evidence rather than on belief. To hold the view that this is not an issue that you need to do something about, to hold the view that it's all a furphy takes belief. (Quote by - Ross Garnaut)
People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live nobly, but within no one's reach to live long. (Quote by - Seneca)
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them. . . . It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
Practical politics consists of ignoring facts. (Quote by - Henry Adams)
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. It's complicated by the fact that in most nations women receive substantially less education than men. (Quote by - Melinda Gates)
One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of all fiction. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman. (Quote by - Angela Merkel)
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts ? the less you know, the hotter you get. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Never let yourself be diverted either by what you would wish to believe or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. Look only at . . . the facts. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The superior man is distressed by the limitation of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has. (Quote by - Confucius)
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the center of gravity of the universe. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously. (Quote by - Kerry Packer)
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The truth is more important than the facts. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away. (Quote by - Christina Rossetti)
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. (Quote by - G K Chesterton)
Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. (Quote by - F. Marion Smith)
