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A fact is like a sack -- it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Luigi Pirandello

Fact
2

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Thomas Huxley

Fact
3

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.

Fact
4

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Jean Genet

Fact
5

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Fact
6

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

Fact
7

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Thomas Carlyle

Fact
8

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fact
9

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

William Faulkner

Fact
10

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Eric Hoffer

Fact
11

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Fact
12

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

John Updike

Fact
13

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

Fact
14

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Aldous Huxley

Fact
15

Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Fact
16

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.

William Hazlitt

Fact
17

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 M.D.

Fact
18

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

Fact
19

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

Fact
20

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

Fact
21

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

Lee Iacocca

Fact
22

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and turn away.

Christina Rossetti

Fact
23

I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Fact
24

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Bertrand Russell

Fact, Myth, Instinct, Selection bias, Confirmation bias
25

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fact
26

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

Albert Einstein

Fact
27

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

Bernard Baruch

Fact
28

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

Fact
29

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Edmund Burke

Fact
30

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Gore Vidal

Fact
31

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Francis Bacon

Fact
32

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought -- with these I deal.

Henry David Thoreau

Fact
33

Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment.

Fact
34

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fact
35

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

Fact
36

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

Fact
37

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Roth

Fact
38

Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Sydney Smith

Fact
39

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

Junius

Fact
40

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

William James

Fact
41

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.

Thomas Huxley

Fact
42

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Fact
43

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Walter Benjamin

Fact
44

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Fact
45

The fatal futility of Fact.

Henry James

Fact
46

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.

William James

Fact
47

The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.

Fact
48

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fact
49

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fact
50

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Fact
51

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Bertrand Russell

Fact
52

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fact
53

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Felix Frankfurter

Fact
54

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

Fact

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A fact is like a sack -- it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

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.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

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.

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.

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.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

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.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and turn away.

I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

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

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought -- with these I deal.

Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

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.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

The fatal futility of Fact.

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.

The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?