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Facts Quotes

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever time it takes or pain it may cause. It can pay to the future what you owe to the past Picture Quote #1

Don’t make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts Picture Quote #1

One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop Picture Quote #1

There’s two things that you don’t listen to: flattery, which can’t help you, and abuse, which can’t hurt you. You have to look at the facts Picture Quote #1

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts Picture Quote #1

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates Picture Quote #1

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The literary artist will... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more Picture Quote #1

We are not relying solely on their findings but rather the facts that we have gathered and verified, we ask for the public to remain patient and peaceful and to trust the process of the justice system Picture Quote #1

It’s unnecessary to make that, you know, strong of a statement. Let the facts, let the case, you know, and the evidence there speak for itself. You want to be careful that you’re not poisoning the jury pool Picture Quote #1

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations Picture Quote #1

Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time Picture Quote #1

Science is built up of 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 Picture Quote #1

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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on Picture Quote #1

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions Picture Quote #1

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up Picture Quote #1

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves Picture Quote #1

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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation Picture Quote #1

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use Picture Quote #1

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten Picture Quote #1

Now, I know among the politically correct, you’re not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable Picture Quote #1

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler Picture Quote #1

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world Picture Quote #1

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We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information Picture Quote #1

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information? Picture Quote #1

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them Picture Quote #1

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other Picture Quote #1

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout Picture Quote #1

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities Picture Quote #1

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Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever time it takes or pain it may cause. It can pay to the future what you owe to the past (Facts Quotes) Don’t make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts (Facts Quotes) One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop (Facts Quotes) There’s two things that you don’t listen to: flattery, which can’t help you, and abuse, which can’t hurt you. You have to look at the facts (Facts Quotes) A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts (Facts Quotes) They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates (Facts Quotes) The literary artist will... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more (Facts Quotes) We are not relying solely on their findings but rather the facts that we have gathered and verified, we ask for the public to remain patient and peaceful and to trust the process of the justice system (Facts Quotes) It’s unnecessary to make that, you know, strong of a statement. Let the facts, let the case, you know, and the evidence there speak for itself. You want to be careful that you’re not poisoning the jury pool (Facts Quotes) My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations (Facts Quotes) Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time (Facts Quotes) Science is built up of 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 (Facts Quotes) When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on (Facts Quotes) All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome (Facts Quotes) 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 (Facts Quotes) The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions (Facts Quotes) I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up (Facts Quotes) General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves (Facts Quotes) The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation (Facts Quotes) As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use (Facts Quotes) Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten (Facts Quotes) Now, I know among the politically correct, you’re not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable (Facts Quotes) When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler (Facts Quotes) It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world (Facts Quotes) We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information (Facts Quotes) Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information? (Facts Quotes) Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them (Facts Quotes) Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other (Facts Quotes) Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout (Facts Quotes) Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities (Facts Quotes)

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