Facts Quotes
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.
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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
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We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained.
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Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.
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Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.
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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
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I prefer facts, but sometimes sense is all you have to go on.
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I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.
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Listen, you may not like the fact that I'm talking about Donald Trump, but the facts are that he is now, this is a race. This is a - it's no longer Hillary's Clinton. This is now a horse race.
