These facts quotes will inspire you. Facts are a thing that is known or proved to be true or information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging facts quotes, facts sayings, and facts proverbs.
Best Facts Quotes
- “Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “Facts are many, but the truth is one.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” ~ William James
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“Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.” ~ Maya Angelou , Facts quotes and truth
- “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.” ~ John Adams
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“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.” ~ Henry Adams
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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.” ~ Henry Adams
- “Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.” ~ Philip Roth
- “Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
- “I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.” ~ Charles Darwin
- “A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.” ~ Thomas Huxley
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“I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty until found effective.” ~ Edward Teller
- “Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- “We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.” ~ Aldous Huxley
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“For every fact, there is an infinity of hypotheses.” ~ Robert M. Pirsig
- “Trust your hunches… Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” ~ Joyce Brothers
- “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Facts are stupid things stubborn things, I should say.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.” ~ Thomas Huxley
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“I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.” ~ Septima Poinsette Clark
- “We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “A ‘fact’ merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.” ~ Bliss Carman
- “There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“There are in fact two things, science, and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” ~ Hippocrates
- “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.” ~ Robert Fulghum
- “As a rule, we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.” ~ William James
- “I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.” ~ Mark Twain
- “A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.” ~ Gilbert Ryle
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“To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.” ~ Felix Frankfurter
- “The fact that you are willing to say, ‘I do not understand, and it is fine,’ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?” ~ Washington Irving
- “Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.” ~ George Santayana
- “Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.” ~ Theodosius Dobzhansky
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“Beauty is an opinion, not a fact.” ~ Hayden Panettiere
- “Comment is free but facts are sacred.” ~ C. P. Scott
- “People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.” ~ Sharon Anthony Bower
- “The fatal futility of Fact.” ~ Henry James
- “Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
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“A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.” ~ Claude Bernard
- “I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.” ~ Lee Iacocca
- “It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.” ~ Michio Kaku
- “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.” ~ Henry David Thoreau , Facts quotes about life
- “It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.” ~ Gore Vidal
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“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world’s data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein’s theory of gravitation replaced Newton’s, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.” ~ Stephen Jay Gould
- “The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.” ~ Richard A. Clarke , Facts quotes and evidence
- “A concept is stronger than a fact.” ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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“The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.” ~ Edmond de Goncourt
- “Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible because otherwise, the bleeding will not end.” ~ Henry A. Kissinger”Attitudes are more important than facts.” ~ George MacDonald
- “The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.” ~ Walter Benjamin
- “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.” ~ Robert Fulghum
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“Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.” ~ Stephenie Meyer
- “Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.” ~ Philip Roth
Facts are something that truly exists or happens: something that has actual existence.
