Quotes
Quotes about Facts
His deeds inimitable, like the sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.
Facts are stubborn things.
The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
I don't complain of Betsy or any of her acts,
Exceptin' when we 've quarreled and told each other facts.
For twelve honest men have decided the cause,
Who are judges alike of the facts and the laws.
Facts are stubborn things.
You've heard of junk food. How about junk facts?
..the people of Tudor England, like the modern Irish, were great talkers. One imagines their speech as rapid, bubbling, both earthily exact and carelessly malapropistic. It was perhaps a McLuhanesque medium, itself its own message and it exhibited the essential function of language - to maintain social contact in the dark.... Speech, when you come to think of it, is not a very exact medium: it is full of stumblings and apologies for not finding the right word; it has to be helped out with animal grunts and the gestures which, one is convinced, represent man's primal mode of communication. Take speech as a flickering auditory candle, and the mere act of maintaining its light becomes enough. Tales, gossip, riddles, word-play pass the time in the dark, and out of these - not out of the need to recount facts or state a case - springs literature.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man--a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
The world, we are told, was made especially for man--a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
Science is built with facts as a house is with stones--but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
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.
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.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Attitudes are more important than facts.
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
