Quotes About Facts

it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion. 

Well, it rained mortar and masonry the rest of the week.  This was the report; but probably the facts would have modified it.

The crowd swarmed together and followed him at a distance, talking excitedly and asking questions and finding out the facts. Finding out the facts and passing them on to others, with improvements-- improvements which soon enlarged the bowl of wine to a barrel, and made the one bottle hold it all and yet remain empty to the last.

Man muß die Tatsachen kennen, bevor man sie verdrehen kann.

really did the research in phases, before, during, and after I'd finished the manuscript. It wasn't until the end of the writing that I went to Munich to check all of my facts, especially little things, like the seasonal habits of apple trees! (Liesel and Rudy's apple-stealing needed to occur in the right month.) I

She reports the breakup of the relationship as if she is presenting a case in court - all facts, no feeling. I lean forward in my chair and comment softly, "How painful that must have been for you.

The idolizers of facts never realize that their idols shine only in a borrowed light. They are indeed not supposed to realize that, for it would immediately make them perplexed and, accordingly, useless. But idolizers and idols are used only when the gods are absconding and so are announcing their nearness.

Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralysing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

The toughminded person always examines the facts before he reaches conclusions; in short, he postjudges.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Es un error capital teorizar antes de tener datos. Sin darse cuenta, uno comienza a distorsionar los hechos para que se ajusten a las teorías, en lugar de formular teorías que se ajusten a los hechos

An investigator needs facts and not legends or rumours.

We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard to tackle the facts.

capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Es un craso error teorizar antes de tener datos. Inconscientemente, uno empieza a moldear los hechos para que se ajusten a las teorías, en lugar de ajustar las teorías a los hechos.

Esto sí es un misterio. ¿Qué cree que significa? —Aún no dispongo de esos datos. Es un error capital teorizar antes de disponer de información. Sin darse cuenta, uno empieza a deformar los hechos para que se ajusten a las teorías, en lugar de ajustar las teorías a los hechos.

But the romance was there," I remonstrated. "I could not tamper with the facts." "Some

Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But

Data! data! data! he cried impatiently. I can't make bricks without clay.

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. What do you deduce from it?

Este o greÈ™eal? capital? s? emiÈ›i teorii înainte de a avea informaÈ›ii. F?r? s?-È›i dai seama, începi s? distorsionezi faptele ca s? se potriveasc? cu teoriile, în loc ca teoriile s? se potriveasc? cu faptele.