Facts Quotes (352 Quotes)

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  “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

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  “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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

  Hilary Mantel

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  “Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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  “No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.”

  C. JoyBell C.

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• “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

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  “Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.”

  Lu Hsun

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  “The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”

  John Muir

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  “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

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  “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

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  “For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”

  Robert M. Pirsig

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  “Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”

  Mark Twain

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  “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

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

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• “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 G. Ingersoll

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  “The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”

  E.M. Forster

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  “Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn't even exist in the first place.”

  Jayson Engay

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  “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

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  “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

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  “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

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• “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

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  “Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence
  could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.”

  Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

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  “I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.”

  Dora J. Arod

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  “The truth is more important than the facts.”

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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  “Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.”

  Alice Miller

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