Quotes about Facts

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“Facts are counterrevolutionary.”
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“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
VerifiedFirst Speech on the Conciliation with America (1774) · evidenceFacts
“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
MisattributedListed as misattributed to Albert Einstein; no source in their known works. · evidenceFacts
“The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact.”
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“Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.”
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“A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.”
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“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”
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“Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.”
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“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”
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“The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.”
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“Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.”
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“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
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“Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.”
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“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
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“Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.”
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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
VerifiedImpressions of Theophrastus Such, Ch. 4 (1879); cf. James Russell Lowell 1871: "Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it." · evidenceFacts
“It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.”
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“Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.”
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“If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.”
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“If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.”
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