Facts Quotes
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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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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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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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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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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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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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I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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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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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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Another wing of the party seems to be putting its hands up. They're not all resisting and accepting the [Donald] Trump - the fact that he could very well win the nomination.
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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 used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
