Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Votes: 4
Charles DickensThere's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. Votes: 4
Maya AngelouFacts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation. Votes: 3
Alexander LebedevMost people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial. Votes: 3
Walter Darby BannardFacts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention. Votes: 3
Alasdair MacIntyreFacts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them. Votes: 3
Cheris KramaraeFacts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. Votes: 3
Christoph WaltzThere's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. Votes: 3
Maya AngelouFacts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory. Votes: 3
Stephen Jay GouldFacts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. Votes: 3
Dorothy DunnettFacts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up. Votes: 3
Sarah ChurchwellFacts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do. Votes: 3
Peg BrackenFacts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit. Votes: 3
Gilbert K. ChestertonFacts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. Votes: 3
Gilbert K. ChestertonFor those of you who don't know who I am, I played Natalie on The Facts of Life. Votes: 3
Reno CollierKnowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Votes: 2
Martin Luther King, Jr.The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. Votes: 2
Bertrand RussellScience is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. Votes: 2
Thomas HobbesI am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. Votes: 2
Charles DarwinTrust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Votes: 2
Joyce BrothersFace the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. Votes: 2
Soren KierkegaardPrejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Votes: 2
E. B. WhiteSome people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts. Votes: 2
Sarah SilvermanA hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. Votes: 2
Bertrand RussellPeople will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. Votes: 2
Andy RooneyEverything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Votes: 2
Marcus AureliusOf what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil? Votes: 2
Alfred de VignyHallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. Votes: 0
Goparaju Ramachandra RaoParticular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science. Votes: 0
Claude BernardHistory, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail. Votes: 0
Charles Augustus BriggsThe facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. Votes: 0
William Allen WhiteEconomists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. Votes: 0
Kenneth E. BouldingI worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts. Votes: 0
Charles DarwinNobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough. Votes: 0
Louis L'AmourThe invalidity of Darwinism and the actuality of creation are scientific facts. Votes: 0
Harun YahyaStatistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state. Votes: 0
Ian HackingImaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. Votes: 0
Christopher BramTheories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless. Votes: 0
Kenneth E. BouldingWe first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaThe safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. Votes: 0
Charles Henry ParkhurstI will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public. Votes: 0
Yingluck ShinawatraIMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceLearning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think. Votes: 0
Frank K. SonnenbergHistory is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts. Votes: 0
Daikichi IrokawaToo much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere Votes: 0
Patrick RothfussReligion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts. Votes: 0
Debasish Mridha M.D.Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Votes: 0
Martin H. FischerDo your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades. Votes: 0
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts. Votes: 0
Katherine ApplegateIn science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. Votes: 0
Mary McCarthyReligions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceGet the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding. Votes: 0
Brian TracyFor every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story. Votes: 0
Barbara KingsolverHistory may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantYou can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettA mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. Votes: 0
Lucien FebvreNeither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more. Votes: 0
Robert W. Welch, Jr.Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes. Votes: 0
B. F. SkinnerIf we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, wed be terrified. Votes: 0
Vilayanur S. RamachandranIf we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. Votes: 0
Vilayanur S. RamachandranThe idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts. Votes: 0
Agnes Sligh TurnbullI believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonEverybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on. Votes: 0
John OliverHistory is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things. Votes: 0
Sarah ChurchwellThough sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable. Votes: 0
Bram StokerThe facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts. Votes: 0
Pete TownshendHistory is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts. Votes: 0
Peter KuznickThe imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. Votes: 0
Charles Horton CooleyWhen the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. Votes: 0
Edith HamiltonTo do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts. Votes: 0
Robert MacArthurMany people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them Votes: 0
Constancev Chuks FridayI love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading. Votes: 0
Corra May HarrisWe may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles Votes: 0
Henry MayhewInclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is. Votes: 0
John D'AgataPart of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardThis is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed. Votes: 0
Lavinia GreenlawYou are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts. Votes: 0
Daniel Patrick MoynihanEducation is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinTo explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them. Votes: 0
Gilbert RyleLangmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory. Votes: 0
Saul DushmanNo opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error. Votes: 0
William Carlos WilliamsThe myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history. Votes: 0
Robert FulghumIf facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts. Votes: 0
Baruch SpinozaIf facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutWe don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think. Votes: 0
Warren BuffettThe human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them. Votes: 0
Celia GreenSome facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'. Votes: 0
Mark GatissWhen that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive. Votes: 0
Patricia ChurchlandThere seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. Votes: 0
Robert PeelWe should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction. Votes: 0
Aneurin BevanA complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end. Votes: 0
J. B. BuryIf you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak. Votes: 0
Jaime Herrera BeutlerWhat is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. Votes: 0
George SantayanaAs a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertI know you [Donald Trump] live in your own reality, but that is not the facts. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonBut facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine. Votes: 0
William JamesHe is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. Votes: 0
Richard Brinsley SheridanTo be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliOne of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisLife is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be. Votes: 0
Brooks AtkinsonGive me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillI do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinNo amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips. Votes: 0
Vance HavnerYou can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell. Votes: 0
Daymond JohnThe facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.
Victoria GlendinningMy ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.
Garrison KeillorWe cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiAll public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
William Carlos WilliamsA little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.
William Stanley JevonsSimple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIt is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts,
Louis AlthusserMy only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
Vincent BugliosiThe student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
Abraham FlexnerYou can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.
Chuck PalahniukIt's important to get the facts straight, a lot of information out there isn't right.
Donna McKechniePerhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.
Henry David ThoreauZen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.
James H. AustinToo many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.
Maurice AllaisThere is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
Virginia WoolfPessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
Francis Parker Yockeyit is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them ...
Mary Parker FollettHistory studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
Numa Denis Fustel de CoulangesSitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement
Agatha ChristieUnlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
Aldous HuxleyOur religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
Brigham YoungA man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.
Joseph AlsopThe facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.
Luigi PirandelloI don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.
Meryl Streep...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
Thomas Sowell"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".
Vaclav KlausImagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
Alfred North WhiteheadI'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
Diana VreelandMemory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
George EliotThe facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.
Isaac AsimovWhen we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
Pearl S. BuckA theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
Francis CrickGiven a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
Gordon AllportOpinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational
Ricky GervaisData is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.
Taiichi OhnoIf something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don't put it in the facts section.
Barbara BoxerI don't feel I insult people. I try and get to the facts and I don't feel I insult people.
Donald TrumpWhat distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
Edward Hallett CarrDon't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.
Harold Eugene EdgertonThe totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.
Ludwig WittgensteinI don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.
Stephen HarperOnly the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.
Alfred KinseyIf you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production
Alvin TofflerThe great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. LawrenceOne of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
Dorothy DayThe profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
James Dwight DanaPublicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.
Keith EllisonTo believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
Ludwig WittgensteinWe're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.
Mort CrimBut you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.
C.C. HunterOne can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.
David FrumIt is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
J. B. PriestleyThere may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
J. Paul GettyLike most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.
John SteinbeckWhen we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.
Margaret HeffernanMemories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Philip RothTo dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.
Wilfred BionReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules VerneFed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
William OslerI now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...
Che GuevaraNo one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
E. M. ForsterGenerally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix S. CohenIf a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
Lloyd AlexanderScience robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
Miguel de UnamunoI'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.
Pam HoustonNobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.
Rebecca WestI must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
Sinclair LewisBut that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.
Camilla GibbIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
John MuirFacts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryThe historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
Marc BlochThere is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.
Milton FriedmanIf you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.
Robert M. PirsigFacts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
William Jennings BryanI would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.
Chuck SmithWhat really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves.
Jerome A. CohenWhat is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
Mahatma GandhiAt least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
Terry PratchettTruly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.
Warren BuffettFacts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
Werner HerzogLogic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.
Avtarjeet Singh DhanjalCreationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
Robert Green IngersollIt is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.
Alfred AdlerWhen a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
Anthony TrollopeYou know you're hearing from God when you don't walk away with facts but you walk away with faith.
Carl LentzIt is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.
Christian Nestell BoveeFacts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.
Elizabeth FerrarsDon't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?
Immanuel VelikovskyThe myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
Joseph CampbellMen are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
Ivan PavlovNow, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.
Newt GingrichStories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.
Soledad O'BrienOne of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.
Benjamin FranklinA common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.
Fred HoyleIf history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
Ronald ReaganThe fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing. Votes: 2 Nicole Holofcener
Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole. Votes: 3 Theodosius Dobzhansky
Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears. Votes: 3 Epicurus
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. Votes: 4 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention. Votes: 0 Sandra Lee Dennis
If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing. Votes: 1 Bob Kane
I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it? Votes: 3 Danica Patrick
I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor. Votes: 4 Gary Jennings
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. Votes: 1 Victor Hugo
I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself. Votes: 4 Jim Parsons
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. Votes: 1 A. C. Benson
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.... Votes: 3 Carl Jung
I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact. Votes: 1 Michael Imperioli
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation. Votes: 3 William Bell Riley
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences. Votes: 4 Nancy Pearcey
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. Votes: 2 Talcott Parsons
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. Votes: 4 Maya Angelou