Facts Quotes

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. (C. S. Lewis)
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. View quote
Henry Adams
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. View quote
Henry Adams
The world is the totality of facts, not of things. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A fanatic is a man who does what he thinks the Lord would do if only He knew the facts of the case. View quote
Finley Peter Dunne
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. View quote
Bernard Baruch
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. View quote
Solomon Asch
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. View quote
Will Rogers
The truth is more important than the facts. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. View quote
Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. View quote
Mark Twain
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts. View quote
Ruth Gordon
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. View quote
John Updike
Bunter: My old mother always used to say, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence... (John Adams)
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. View quote
Norman Cousins
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. View quote
Aleister Crowley
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. View quote
John Ruskin
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey