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Quotes about facts
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. (Sawyer Diane)
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner. (Sawyer Diane)
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side. (Sawyer Diane)
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. (Sawyer Diane)
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. (Sawyer Diane)
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. (Sawyer Diane)
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong. (Sawyer Diane)
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. (Sawyer Diane)
A concept is stronger than a fact. (Sawyer Diane)
The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth. (Sawyer Diane)
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it. (Sawyer Diane)
Facts are counterrevolutionary. (Sawyer Diane)
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. (Sawyer Diane)
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. (Sawyer Diane)
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. (Sawyer Diane)
The fatal futility of Fact. (Sawyer Diane)
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. (Sawyer Diane)
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. (Sawyer Diane)
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. (Sawyer Diane)
The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact. (Sawyer Diane)
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. (Sawyer Diane)
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. (Sawyer Diane)
There are no facts, only interpretations. (Sawyer Diane)
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. (Sawyer Diane)
The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it. (Sawyer Diane)
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