Facts Quotes

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

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death.

The D.B. Cooper story is so rich, ... Two facts about the man guide my development of Charles Westmoreland's character: D.B. Cooper let the passengers off the plane before he forced the pilot to fly over the country so that he (Cooper) could parachute out with the money, and, he tipped the flight attendants. That says volumes about the man in my book.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

new facts and circumstances.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

If the dream is big enough the facts don't matter.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Let's look at some facts. You know, false accusations are made by people all the time for all different types of reasons.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

There are no facts, only interpretations.