Facts Quotes

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

~ Henry Adams

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

~ Mary Mccarthy

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

~ George Santayana

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

~ Mark Frauenfelder

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

~ Linus Pauling

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

~ Max Weber

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

~ Yingluck Shinawatra

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

~ Oscar Wilde

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

~ Jamais Cascio

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

~ Amiri Baraka

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

~ Stephen Breyer

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

~ Edmund Burke

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

~ Robert Owen

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

~ Norman Cousins

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

~ Steven Pinker

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

~ Ray Bradbury

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

~ Carl Jung

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

~ Bertrand Russell

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

~ Martin H. Fischer

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

~ Katharine Graham

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

~ William Glasser

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

~ Ryan White

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

~ Maya Angelou

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are stubborn things.

~ Ronald Reagan

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

~ Stephen Colbert

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

~ Andy Rooney

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

~ Al Gore

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

~ Galileo Galilei

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

~ Mark Twain

Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things isn't enough anymore.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

~ Adam Smith

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

~ John Burroughs

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

~ Sam Levenson

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

~ Will Rogers

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

~ Henry Adams