68 Facts And Quotes

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1. “For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ” - Robert M. Pirsig

2. “Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.” - John Lubbock

3. “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” - Neil Gaiman

4. “Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.” - Thomas Huxley

5. “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” - Karl Marx

6. “The truth is more important than the facts.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

7. “Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

8. “Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.” - Mark Twain

9. “You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.” - Chuck Palahniuk

10. “Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.” - Edith Wharton

11. “The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” - E. M. Forster

12. “Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.” - Daniel Alarcon

13. “Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.” - Dean Koontz

14. “The facts are always less than what really happened.” - Nadine Gordimer

15. “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

16. “If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.” - Ray Bradbury

17. “So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.” - Tacitus

18. “In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.” - David Hume

19. “In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.” - Mary Roach

20. “Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.” - Thornton Wilder

21. “This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.” - Susan Jacoby

22. “The strong belief can make things out of imagination.But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.” - Toba Beta

23. “I don't believe that aliens exist,but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.” - Toba Beta

24. “So you have to accept facts as fact.” - Ai Yazawa

25. “He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.” - Anne Carson

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

27. “Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.” - Clarence Day

28. “We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

29. “She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had revised her position.Although she still believed that one should be frank in answers to questions, this duty arose only where there was an obligation, based on a reasonable expectation, to make a full disclosure. There was no duty to reveal everything in response to a casual question by one who had no right to the information.” - Alexander McCall Smith

30. “Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)” - Christopher Nolan

31. “If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.” - Werner Herzog

32. “When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

33. “إنّ الطبيعة اليهودية طبيعة معقّدة، لها قابليّة عجيبة على التلوّن بمختلف الألوان، والظهور في عدّة أشكال، فيما يظل الجوهر فاسداً لا أمل فيه” - كمال السيد

34. “There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.” - Gene Siskel

35. “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.” - Hilary Mantel

36. “Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.” - Hyman G. Rickover

37. “When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience.” - Quin Hillyer

38. “Facts? What are facts? I only know imagination!” - C. JoyBell C.

39. “The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.” - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

40. “The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence.” - National Academy of Sciences

41. “لا تسخر من خرافات الشعوب. فهذه الخرافات هي التي أصبحت بعد ذلك حقائق كبرى..” - أنيس منصور

42. “Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.” - E.E. Evans-Pritchard

43. “The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.” - Celia Green

44. “Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.” - John Alexander

45. “Lord Peter Wimsey: Facts, Bunter, must have facts. When I was a small boy, I always hated facts. Thought they were nasty, hard things, all nobs. Mervyn Bunter: Yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say... Lord Peter Wimsey: Your mother, Bunter? Oh, I never knew you had one. I always thought you just sort of came along already-made, so it were. Oh, excuse me. How infernally rude of me. Beg pardon, I'm sure. Mervyn Bunter: That's all right, my lord. Lord Peter Wimsey: Thank you. Mervyn Bunter: Yes indeed, I was one of seven. Lord Peter Wimsey: That is pure invention, Bunter, I know better. You are unique. But you were going to tell me about your mater. Mervyn Bunter: Oh yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, and they generally run away. Lord Peter Wimsey: By Jove, that's courageous, Bunter. What a splendid person she must be. Mervyn Bunter: I think so, my lord.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

46. “Comments are free but facts are sacred.” - C.P. Scott

47. “I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.” - Veronica Roth

48. “They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.” - Glenn Greenwald

49. “The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals ...” - Oswald Spengler

50. “To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

51. “All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

52. “Facts are subversive” - Isidor F. Stone

53. “Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.” - Lu Xun

54. “I have stories. But stories are not facts.''I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the time they're better than facts.” - Morgan Rhodes

55. “True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.” - Shannon L. Alder

56. “Babies are born without knee-caps.” - Reader's Digest Association

57. “Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.” - Jules Verne

58. “I am a terrible judge of character' "I don't think so. You just need to take note of FACTS from the outset, not feelings.” - Freya North

59. “To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery.” - George MacDonald

60. “Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.” - Lionel Suggs

61. “Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?” - David Levithan

62. “If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.” - Clamp

63. “It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are...” - Edith Hamilton Mythology

64. “If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.” - Shlomo Sand

65. “لاتعرف قيمة امك وعظمتها فى حياتك الا عندما تتزوج” - mo7amed7ussein

66. “There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.” - Bryant McGill

67. “All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion.” - Bryant McGill

68. “Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art” - Gary Hopkins