Facts Quotes

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

~ Robert Peel

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

~ J. C. Watts

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

~ Will Smith

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

~ Niels Bohr

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

~ John Henry Newman

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

~ Jessamyn West

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

~ Charles Horton Cooley

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

~ Felix Frankfurter

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

~ Jimmy Carter