Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Facts

That’s the kind of ad I like: facts, facts, facts.
Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974) Polish-born American Film Producer, Businessperson

Get your facts first, and then you can distort ’em as you please.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don’t get all the facts, it can’t be right.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
Danish Proverb

He that has “a spirit of detail” will do better in life than many who figured beyond him in the university.—Such an one is minute and particular.—He adjusts trifles; and these trifles compose most of the business and happiness of life.—Great events happen seldom, and affect few; trifles happen every moment to everybody; and though one occurrence of them adds little to the happiness or misery of life, yet the sum total of their continual repetition is of the highest consequence.
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) American Statesman, Lawyer

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American Judge

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) English Biologist

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician

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 (1859–1930) Scottish Writer

There comes a time when you’ve got to say, “Let’s get off our asses and go …” I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
Lee Iacocca (1924–2019) American Businessperson

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.
Unknown

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Comment is free but facts are sacred.
C. P. Scott (1846–1932) British Journalist, Editor, Politician

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 (1933–2018) American Novelist, Short-story Writer

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. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!
Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Unknown

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious—because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author

But I hate things all fiction… there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric—and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

The fatal futility of Fact.
Henry James (1843–1916) American-born British Novelist, Writer

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing—a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Unknown

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
Francis de Sales (1567–1622) French Catholic Saint

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

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