Facts Quotes

If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

CLAMP

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.

Al Gore

Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

John H. Alexander

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

Robert M. Pirsig

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Facts? What are facts? I only know imagination!

C. JoyBell C.

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.

Toba Beta

I don't believe that aliens exist,but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.

Toba Beta

She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had revised her position.Although she still believed that one should be frank in answers to questions, this duty arose only where there was an obligation, based on a reasonable expectation, to make a full disclosure. There was no duty to reveal everything in response to a casual question by one who had no right to the information.

Alexander McCall Smith

Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

Mary Roach

The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence.

National Academy of Sciences

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

Mark Twain

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution

Theodosius Dobzhansky

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

St. Francis De Sales

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Eric Hoffer

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Charles Simmons

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