facts quotes

• Facts are stupid things. (Ronald Reagan) [facts]
• It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. (Mark Twain) [facts/class]
• 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. (John Adams) [facts/state/facts]
• Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. (Francis Bacon) [men/facts]
• For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. (Bertolt Brecht) [facts/mankind/acts]
• What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? (Thomas Carlyle) [facts/more]
• 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. (Thomas Carlyle) [facts/more/more/thing]
• Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. (Thomas Carlyle) [facts]
• History is but a confused heap of facts. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [facts]
• Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [facts/facts/spirit/reality]
• 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! (Charles Dickens) [facts/teach/girls/facts]
• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. (Albert Einstein) [science/facts]
• In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness. (George Eliot) [mind/facts/ignorance]
• The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [right/merchant/facts/decision]
• Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [facts]
• Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [time/facts]
• No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [facts/past]
• The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [look/facts]
• Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong. (Thomas Fuller) [facts/facts/willpower/right]
• From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [truth/facts]
• Facts are counterrevolutionary. (Eric Hoffer) [facts]
• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no facts at this table. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [horror/facts/company/ingenious]
• A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [death/facts/character/verdict]
• Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [people/facts]
• 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. (Victor Hugo) [mankind/facts/]
• Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. (William James) [facts]
• As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. (William James) [facts]
• Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary. (Samuel Johnson) [human/mind/facts/exercise]
• Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. (Soren Kierkegaard) [face/facts/being/changes]
• Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. (Norman Mailer) [newspaper/facts]
• In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality. (Mary McCarthy) [science/facts/matter/equality]

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