Facts Quotes

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.