Quotes
Quotes about Fact
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.
Is it a factâor have I dreamt itâthat, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
Give me a productive error over a boring, mundane and unproductive fact any day.
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
A concept is stronger than a fact.
Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
