Quotes About Facts

Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

Before believing something, check the facts. False beliefs can infect and affect the mind.

Beliefs are often imposed or spontaneously created thoughts that cannot be supported by facts.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them.

For the value of history, and therefore of military history, is not in the facts it communicates or even in the principals it illustrates. The value of history is that it can provide fresh insight into the past and hence a better understanding of the present.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

The truth, we realize as we get older, is a very complicated pastiche of feelings and facts, of what can and cannot be said. It's different for everyone.

Nothing was more important than the cause, facts included.

Well, for starters, Abraham Lincoln didn't write 'To Kill a Mockingbird.

It was becoming increasingly important for these young missionaries to know every available fact about the Aucas. They read the reports of the Shell Oil Company and talked to anyone who had ever had any contact with the Aucas.

I do truly believe I am fortunate. I am fortunate because I have been able to spend my life in study of the world. As such, I have never felt insignificant. This life is a mystery, yes, and it is often a trial, but if one can find some facts within it, one should always do so - for knowledge is the most precious of all commodities.

If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with themselves, the old dictum that everything is identical with itself becomes in [todays understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.

In answer to your question, I believe stupidity is the most dangerous. Stupid people are more apt to refuse to face facts, to barricade themselves behind some obscure point of law or their own silly notions of propriety. Or worse yet, refuse to make a decision until they are facing disaster.