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Quotations by Subject: Facts
(Related Subjects: Knowledge, Learning, Education)
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Proper Studies", 1927
Where facts are few, experts are many.
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Donald R. Gannon
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
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Felix Cohen
Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts.
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Harper Lee (1926 - )
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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.
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John Adams (1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
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John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
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John Gunther (1901 - 1970)
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
Facts are stupid things.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
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Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.
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William C. Redfield, Address at Case School, Cleveland, Ohio, May 27, 1915
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