Facts Quotes

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts.

Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

Facts are stupid things.

Facts are stupid things.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.