Facts Quotes

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept 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.

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.

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

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.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

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

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.