Facts Quotes

• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Intelligent, Greatness

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• In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.

  Leonard Saffir

  Communication, Management, Blame

  Leonard Saffir, Jack Tarrant (1993). “Power Public Relations: How to Get PR to Work for You”, N T C Business Books

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• All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.

  Wheeler McMillen

  Yield, Law, Progress

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• We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Way

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• We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

  Don Young

  Country, Government, Hands

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• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  Oliver Lodge

  Personality, Able, Fit

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• Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

  Rebecca Solnit

  People, Interesting, Choices

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• Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Hate, Peculiar, Belief

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• All genuine progress results from finding new facts

  Wheeler McMillen

  Progress, Genius, Results

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

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• Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Wisdom, Lying

  "Encore : A Continuing Anthology‬". Book by Smith Dent, p. 309, March 1945.

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• Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

  Bertrand Russell

  Humility, Men, People

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• Facts are many, but the truth is one.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Truth, Reality

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.16, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

  George Santayana

  Ignorance, Science, Bears

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Math

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Hard Times, Animal

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

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• With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

  Aristotle

  Music, Notes, Given

  Aristotle, Robert C. Bartlett, Susan D. Collins (2012). “Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Feet, Equal

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• Comment is free but facts are sacred.

  C. P. Scott

  Sacred, Comment

  Manchester Guardian, 5 May 1921

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• I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

  Adam Osborne

  Believe, Leaving, Mind

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• This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

  Brian Perkins

  Sound, Ordinary, Truth Is

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• I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Opinion

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

  Hippocrates

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

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