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Quotes about Facts


Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

William Faulkner

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alex Bourne

Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Charles Prestwich Scott

Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.

William C. Redfield

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

Colin Powell

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

Christina Rossetti

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Roth

We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.

F. Marion Smith

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Arnold H. Glasow

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Brooks Adams

Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.

William C. Redfield

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Charles P. Scott

We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.

F. Marion Smith

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

Bernard M. Baruch

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.

Thomas Fuller

I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Thomas Anon.

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

Mark Twain

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Thomas Huxley

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew the facts of the matter.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

Finley Peter Dunne

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

Finley Peter Dunne

An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.

V. S. Naipaul

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