Facts Quotes

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

Seek truth from facts.

The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'

All that the socialists understand about money is the fact that they want it from others.

Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

Interesting fact: a shark will only attack you if you’re wet.

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.