Facts

(53 votes)   The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact.

Agnes C. Laut
1871-1936, Canadian Journalist, Author

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(190 votes)   What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(179 votes)   Facts are ventriloquists 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
1894-1963, British Author

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(170 votes)   It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion

Norman Angell
1872-1967, British Writer, Pacifist

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(132 votes)   Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(107 votes)   The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
1822-1896, French Writers

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(105 votes)   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, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(102 votes)   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
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(94 votes)   The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.

Danish Proverbs
Sayings of Danish Origin

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(91 votes)   One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Karl A. Menninger
1893-1990, American Psychiatrist

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(76 votes)   Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(71 votes)   Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(69 votes)   A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(68 votes)   The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(65 votes)   Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.

William C. Redfield

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