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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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| Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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John Adams(1735-1826, American President (2nd)) |
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| 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
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Norman Angell(1872-1967, British writer, pacifist) |
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| Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
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Francis Bacon(1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman) |
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| Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
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| If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
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Bernard M. Baruch(1870-1965, American financier) |
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| Facts can't be recounted, much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
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Augusto Roa Bastos(1917-, Paraguayan novelist) |
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| The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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Walter Benjamin(1982-1940, German critic, philosopher) |
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| Many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
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James Gordon Bennett(1795-1872, British-born American journalist) |
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| A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
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Claude Bernard(1813-1878, French physiologist) |
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| People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.
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Sharon Anthony Bower(American author) |
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| Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| 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.
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| What are your historical facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest facts?
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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Bliss Carman(1861-1929, Canadian poet) |
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| I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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Dale Carnegie(1888-1955, American trainer, author, How to Win Friends and Influence People) |
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| The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
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Richard Clark |
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| 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!
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Charles Dickens(1812-1870, British novelist) |
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| Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(1859-1930, British author, Sherlock Holmes) |
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| There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(1859-1930, British author, Sherlock Holmes) |
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| Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.
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Frederick Hudson Ecker(American business executive) |
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| If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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Albert Einstein(1879-1955, German-born American physicist) |
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| Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
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George Eliot(1819-1880, British novelist) |
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| 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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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| If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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| No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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| The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.
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Edmond and Jules De Goncourt(1822-1896, French writers) |
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| Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
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William Faulkner(1897-1962, American novelist) |
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| To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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Felix Frankfurter(1882-1965, Austrian-born American law teacher, judge) |
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| Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.
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Thomas Fuller(1608-1661, British clergyman, author) |
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| Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Jean Genet(1910-1986, French playwright, novelist) |
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| A concept is stronger than a fact.
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Charlotte P. Gillman(1860-1935, American feminist and writer) |
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| General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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William Hazlitt(1778-1830, British essayist) |
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| Facts are counterrevolutionary.
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Eric Hoffer(1902-1983, American author, philosopher) |
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| All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "facts." They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no "facts" at this table.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes(1809-1894, American author, wit, poet) |
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| Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.
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Edmund Husserl |
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| 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.
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Aldous Huxley(1894-1963, British author) |
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| Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Aldous Huxley(1894-1963, British author) |
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| A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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Thomas H. Huxley(1825-1895, British biologist, educator) |
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| Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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Thomas H. Huxley(1825-1895, British biologist, educator) |
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| I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
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Lee Iacocca(1924-, American businessman, former CEO of Chrysler) |
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| The fatal futility of Fact.
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Henry James(1843-1916, American author) |
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| Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
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William James(1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author) |
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| 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.
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William James(1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author) |
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| Anything that enlarges the sphere of human powers and shows man he can do what he thought he could not do is valuable.
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Ben Johnson(1572-1637, British clergyman, poet, painter) |
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| One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
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Junius(1769-1771, Anonymous British letter writer) |
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| Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Jawaharlal Nehru(1889-1964, Indian nationalist, statesman) |
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| The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact.
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Agnes C. Laut(1871-1936, Canadian journalist, author) |
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| 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.
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Karl A. Menninger(1893-1990, American psychiatrist) |
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| There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900, German philosopher) |
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