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John Adams

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

George Santayana

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Harry S Truman

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

Clarence Day

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Robert Keith Leavitt

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

John Adams

Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence.

John Adams

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams

Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Albert Einstein

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

Henri Poincare

Science is facts just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

John Quincy Adams

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.

Jessamyn West

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Felix Cohen

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

Jerry Seinfeld

Writing science labs is a simple task. You just have to list facts down and a write conclusion based on your facts. Like this one: You have scalpel, and a frog. Stab the frog with a scalpel. The conclusion: The frog is dead.

Linus Pauling

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Al Kersha

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Charles McCabe

Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.

Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Arnold Glasgow

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Paul Eldridge

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Harry S Truman

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Joyce

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Dr. Karl Menninger

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.

Henry Adams

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

Bethania McKenstry

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Martin H. Fischer

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

D. H. Lawrence

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Henry B. Adams

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

Macneile Dixon

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

Evan Esar

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Mort Crim

It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . . We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Conan Doyle

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Let us take things as we find them let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Ruth Gordon

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

Lyndon B. Johnson

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Erich Fromm

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Bernard Baruch

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Robert

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Unknown

Follow the habit of asking, 'How do you know' Never accept opinions as facts. Avoid following free advice. Don't trust information given in a discourteous or slanderous spirit. In asking for information, do not disclose what you wish the information to be.

Charles Robert Darwin

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.

Sloan Wilson

And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questi

Charles Swindoll

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people

Jacob Bronowski

I set out to show that there exists single creative activity, which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences. It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies.

They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

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

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

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

How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table.

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

Get the facts first - you can distort them later!

Facts are obstinate

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

Never mind the facts - I know what I know.

Don't confuse me with facts..

Where facts are few, experts are many.

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

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

Never give up and never face the facts.

Facts Just Get In The Way And Impede Progress.

By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts!

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Facts are stupid things.

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Facts are stubborn things.

Paranoia means having all the facts.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Don't confuse me with facts, my mind's already made up!

My mind is made up ... don't confuse me with the facts.

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

Science is true ... don't be misled by facts.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

An ounce of emotion equals a ton of facts.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.