71 Fascinating Facts And Quotes

In a world where information is at our fingertips, it's easy to overlook the beauty of a simple yet powerful fact or an inspiring quote. Whether you're seeking a burst of knowledge or a spark of inspiration, our carefully curated collection of 71 fascinating facts and quotes promises to delight and enlighten. Each entry invites you to pause and reflect, offering insights that span from the whimsical to the profound. So, settle in and prepare to embark on a journey through words and wisdom that will leave you curious and inspired.

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

2. “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

3. “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

4. “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

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

6. “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

7. “Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship” - Robert Green Ingersoll

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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.” - Alfred North Whitehead

12. “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

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

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

15. “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

16. “Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison.The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.” - Henri Poincare

17. “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

18. “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

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

20. “Grown-up people find it difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything, and grown-ups know this. That is why they tell you that the earth is round like an orange, when you can see perfectly well that it is flat and lumpy; and why they say that the earth goes round the sun, when you can see for yourself any day that the sun gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night like a good sun as it is, and the earth knows its place, and lies as still as a mouse. Yet I daresay you believe all that about the earth and the sun, and if so you will find it quite easy to believe that before Anthea and Cyril and the others had been a week in the country they had found a fairy.” - Edith Nesbit

21. “I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives.” - Seymour Simon

22. “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

23. “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

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

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

26. “Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.” - Toba Beta

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

28. “It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?” - Arthur Conan Doyle

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

30. “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.

31. “Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.” - Peg Bracken

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.” - Charles Darwin

37. “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

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

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

40. “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

41. “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

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

43. “Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge.” - Elaine Chaika

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

45. “Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.” - Richard Hughes

46. “it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.” - G.K. Chesterton

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

48. “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

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

50. “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

51. “I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.” - Mark Twain

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

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

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

55. “We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

56. “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

57. “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

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

59. “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

60. “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

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

62. “The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.” - Lionel Suggs

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

64. “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

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

66. “A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.” - W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

69. “Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.” - Shannon L. Alder

70. “الإيمان الصادق أندر من العنقاء” - نجيب محفوظ

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