Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Facts.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana, The Letters of
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Claude Bernard
Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
Charles Dickens
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.
Facts are stupid things.
Ronald Reagan
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain
Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them.
William B. Given
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Twenty children can never play together for twenty years
Michael Adelowo
We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.
F. Marion Smith
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
Bernard Baruch
In a major matter no details are small.
Paul De Gondi
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. ... But so long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essa
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
Cynthia Ozick
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
Dorothy L. Sayers
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Jean de La Fontaine
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter
Carelessness is worse than a thieve.
Scottish Proverb
