Quotes About Facts

The backfire and continued influence effects should be disheartening to those who think that the first step in arguing with those who base their beliefs on misinformation should be to get their opponents to see what the facts are. Correcting errors may be pointless when dealing with some people.

Accept People as Facts

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

Truth has more shadings than you might think, and distance often distorts truth into something very different from the facts.

Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.

If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott. I have in my head a thousand facts they couldn't possibly recall. It's simply easier for them to place me where the questions are, where problems need solutions. (Alfred Gillette)

Did your horoscope say your stars were in a bad alignment? Did an entrail reading priest find something nasty in the offal? I mean, look, if you know something I should know, let's talk about it. If you got a racially justify belief, more power to you. But how many times do we have to go through this? We are grownups we should be responsive to facts. Not feelings.

After all, one wouldn't want facts and reality—not to mention the national interest—to intrude upon partisan politics, would one?

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

It's proper to begin with the regular facts, but after a rule is established beyond all doubt, the facts in conformity with it become dull because they no longer teach us anything new. Then it's the exception that becomes important. We seek not resemblances but differences, choose the most accentuated differences because they're the most striking and also the most instructive.

But the first one had not been successful. It had not been successful because in the midst of the process I tried to discover the truth and not the facts.

Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.

said, most people are in financial trouble today simply because they've taken too many shortcuts and are making their life's financial decisions based upon opinions (often the opinions of an E or an S) and not the facts.

When you know things you have to go by facts. But when you just dream things there's nothing to hold you down.

It's better to know than to imagine, said Felicity. Oh, no, it isn't, said the Story Girl quickly. When you know things you have to go by facts. But when you just dream about things there's nothing to hold you down.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of light and dark: it is only with effort that I see them in terms of colour. There are things I know, though I don't know how I know them, and things that I remember. Certain things are established in my mind as facts, but no picture attaches to them; on the other hand there are pictures unverified by any fact which recur obsessively, like the landscape of a dream.

my first day of ninth grade had no assembly no First Ten Lies They Tell You in High School no showdown with Mr. Neck Speak is a novel rooted in facts, to be sure, but a story bred with its own DNA an invasive species growing out of a stump of a tree hit by lightning growing from the girl who survived

This threatens to become a circular argument," Holmes said. "I know it's there because it's all that explains the facts. My wife tells me that astronomers posit the existence of an invisible planet by the effects it has on the orbit of other celestial bodies. Thus do I posit the existence of this object.

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn't. It's not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can't have your own facts.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.