Facts Quotes

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Bertrand Russell

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

Edmond de Goncourt

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Jean Genet

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

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Heraclitus

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact.

Agnes C. Laut

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

Tryon Edwards

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Tryon Edwards

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.

Pablo Picasso

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

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

William James

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

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Dale Carnegie

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Charles Prestwich Scott

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

Walter Benjamin

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

Danish proverb

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.

Frederick Hudson Ecker

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