Facts Quotes
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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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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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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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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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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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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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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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of 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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I used to have so many opinions before I learned 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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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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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.
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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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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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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
