Quotes About Facts

You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. The good-to-great companies operated

Charisma can be as much a liability as an asset, as the strength of your leadership personality can deter people from bringing you the brutal facts.

You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. The good-to-great companies operated in accordance with this principle, and the comparison companies generally did not.

So, early in the war, he created an entirely separate department outside the normal chain of command, called the Statistical Office, with the principal function of feeding him—continuously updated and completely unfiltered—the most brutal facts of reality.

You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts.

I... had no need for cheering dreams," he wrote. "Facts are better than dreams.

Administrative man recognizes that the world he perceives is a drastically simplified model of the buzzing, blooming confusion that constitutes the real world. He is content with the gross simplification because he believes that the real world is mostly empty—that most of the facts of the real world have no great relevance to any particular situation he is facing and that most significant chains of causes and consequences are short and simple. —Herbert Simon

I don't want to start speculating. First we need facts." I

Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I'm stating facts.

Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

I like to look at it as things and people and whole society in general being uneducated about facts. There are a lot of stereotypes. But I don't see color, I don't see race.

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

Ebola so scary and so unfamiliar, it's really important to outline what the facts are and that we know how to control it. We control it by traditional public health measures. We do that, and Ebola goes away.

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Nature tells the truth as it is

Know truth. Respect facts. Doubt opinions. Reject lies.

coincidence is not just only a road to facts but also a call to ponder

Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.