Quotes
Quotes about Facts
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
History is a confused heap of facts.
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. -Dr. Joyce Brothers.
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.
The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum Quaerere.]
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the ad increases.
In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.
There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. - Mr. Citizen, 1960.
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.
Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed.
His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.
Facts are stubborn things.
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Facts often contradict with truths.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
