Quotes on Facts

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Author: Floyd Abrams

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

Author: Iyad Allawi

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Author: Hervey Allen

It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem.

Author: Dillon Anderson

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Author: Robert Ballard

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

Author: Bernard Baruch

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Author: Bernard Baruch

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

Author: Jim Bishop

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

Author: Marc Bloch

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Author: Stephen Breyer

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Author: Jerome Bruner

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Author: William Burroughs

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

Author: Nancy Cartwright

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

Author: Chevy Chase

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

Author: Samuel Chase

How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.

Author: Caryl Chessman

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.

Author: George Combe

Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others.

Author: Roscoe Conkling

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

Author: John Cooper

I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one.

Author: John Cooper

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

Author: Samuel Crothers

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

Author: Caleb Cushing

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Author: Charles Darwin

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

Author: Charles Darwin

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

Author: Elizabeth Dole

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

Author: Charles Doren

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

Author: David Douglass

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

Author: Arthur Doyle

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

Author: Finley Dunne

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Author: Ralph Emerson

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

Author: Gustave Flaubert

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

Author: Malcolm Forbes

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Author: Felix Frankfurter

I deal in facts.

Author: Louis Freeh

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

Author: Thomas Fuller

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Author: Neil Gaiman

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

Author: Alberto Giacometti

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Author: Arnold Glasow

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

Author: Theo Gogh

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Author: Nadine Gordimer

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

Author: Al Gore

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

Author: Celia Green

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

Author: Friedrich Hayek

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Author: Alexander Herzen

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Author: Eric Hoffer

The facts are on our side.

Author: Karen Hughes

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Author: Robert Hutchins

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Author: Aldous Huxley

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.

Author: Lee Iacocca

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

Author: William James

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Author: Randall Jarrell

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.

Author: William King

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

Author: Alfred Kinsey

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

Author: E. Konigsburg

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

Author: Norman Lamm

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Author: George MacDonald

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

Author: Norman Mailer

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Author: Paul Man

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Author: Ernest Mandel

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

Author: Henry Mayhew

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

Author: Peter McWilliams

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.

Author: Karl Menninger

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

Author: Henry Miller

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Author: Daniel Moynihan

All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.

Author: Robert Mueller

I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.

Author: Robert Mueller

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

Author: Grace Napolitano

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

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

Author: Howard Nemerov

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Author: Charles Parkhurst

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Author: Talcott Parsons

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

Author: Talcott Parsons

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

Author: Talcott Parsons

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

Author: Linus Pauling

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

Author: Ivan Pavlov

Facts do not speak.

Author: Henri Poincare

Facts are stubborn things.

Author: Ronald Reagan

I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded.

Author: Frederic Remington

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Author: Carl Rogers

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Author: Salman Rushdie

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Author: George Santayana

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

Author: Tom Schulman

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

Author: Albion Small

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

Author: Sonia Sotomayor

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Author: Thomas Sowell

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Author: Joseph Stalin

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Author: Kenneth Starr

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

Author: Oliver Stone

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

Author: Charles Talleyrand

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Author: Marlo Thomas

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.

Author: Harry Truman

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Author: Mark Twain

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

Author: Mark Twain

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

Author: Gore Vidal

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

Author: Robert Welch

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

Author: Curt Weldon

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.

Author: Julius Wellhausen

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

Author: Ryan White

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.

Author: Francis Yockey