Facts Quotes

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

Please, Distort

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Truth, Crisis

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein

Change, Theory, Fit

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Live, Die

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

Science, Greatest, Aim

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

May, Cannot, Whatever

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain

Congress, Except, Class

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob Marley

Music, Fool, Maybe

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain

Stubborn, Statistics, Pliable

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou

Truth, Between, Difference

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Truth, Judge, Afraid

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell

Religion, True, Another

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers

Trust, Away, Level

Facts are stubborn things.
Ronald Reagan

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

Trust, Future, Past

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

Death, Two, Cannot

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Love, Dreams, Hope

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers

Government, Jokes, Watch

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell

Future, Past, Political

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

Eternal, Truths, Absolute

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!
George S. Patton

Time, Fear, Important

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.
Erma Bombeck

Mind, Human, Brain

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
Barack Obama

Politics, Time, Science

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley

Exist, Ignored, Cease

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Soren Kierkegaard

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot

Best, Character, Become

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Makes, Body, Opinions

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