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Quotes about facts
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Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end. (Sawyer Diane)
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (Sawyer Diane)
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. (Sawyer Diane)
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. (Sawyer Diane)
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. (Sawyer Diane)
Attitudes are more important than facts. (Sawyer Diane)
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (Sawyer Diane)
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. (Sawyer Diane)
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion (Sawyer Diane)
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. (Sawyer Diane)
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. (Sawyer Diane)
Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification. (Sawyer Diane)
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. (Sawyer Diane)
People can refute your facts, but never your feelings. (Sawyer Diane)
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. (Sawyer Diane)
What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? (Sawyer Diane)
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. (Sawyer Diane)
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. (Sawyer Diane)
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told. (Sawyer Diane)
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition. (Sawyer Diane)
Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir! (Sawyer Diane)
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. (Sawyer Diane)
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. (Sawyer Diane)
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. (Sawyer Diane)
Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you. (Sawyer Diane)
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