Facts Quotes

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

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.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

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.