Quotes about Facts

"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

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
-Albert Einstein

"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."
-Albert Einstein

"The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish."
-Mark Twain

"It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress."
-Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
-Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)"
-Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
-Mark Twain

"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!"
-Matt Groening

"Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing."
-Scott Westerfeld

"We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts."
-John Dewey

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath."
-Arnold H. Glasgow

"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes."
-Jawaharlal Nehru

"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."
-John Adams

"Where facts are few, experts are many."
-Donald R. Gannon

"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts."
-John Gunther

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."
-Jessamyn West

"The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them."
-Samuel McChord Crothers

"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 Kissinger

"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly."
-Dr. Linus Pauling

"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."
-John Henry Cardinal Newman

"The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion."
-William Macneile Dixon

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."
-Mark Twain

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
-Mark Twain