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Quotes About Facts

Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.
~ Garrison Keillor
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
~ Margaret Fuller
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.
~ Mark Twain
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.
~ Peter Medawar
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
The stupendous truth of the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as a Heavenly Father, became established facts in Mormon Theology.
~ Milton R. Hunter
Accuracy builds credibility.
~ Jim Rohn
Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
~ Robin G. Collingwood
A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.
~ Zig Ziglar
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
~ Ken Burns
My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.
~ Max Born
Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.
~ Frank Turek
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
~ Ambrose Bierce
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
~ Huston Smith
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
~ Walter Cronkite
If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.
~ George Orwell
When creativity is seen as more important than facts, we will find ourselves in a world where problems are solved more often than spoken of.
~ Tarryn Tomlinson
Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.
~ Duop Chak Wuol
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
~ William James
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
~ Niels Bohr