Facts Quotes
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Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.
William of Occam
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Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
E. L. Konigsburg
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Concealment of negative facts that might influence a consumer to purchase another manufacturer's product is the essence of fraud.
Eliot Spitzer
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We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world
Eglantyne Jebb
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It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.
Jack Reed
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
Dorothy Dunnett
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton
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Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!
Rod Stewart
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I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
Michael Faraday
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
A.S.A. Harrison
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
Barry Commoner
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Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
Thomas Sowell
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I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.
Walter Kirn
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain
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As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
Upton Sinclair
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I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
Farley Mowat
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Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.
Michael B. Jordan
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We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.
Albert Einstein
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I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
Nan Goldin
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot
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I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.
Etgar Keret
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The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.
A. Whitney Brown