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Facts Quotes

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision Picture Quote #1

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid Picture Quote #1

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing Picture Quote #1

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time Picture Quote #1

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders Picture Quote #1

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts Picture Quote #1

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Facts are ventriloquist’s 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 Picture Quote #1

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them Picture Quote #1

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law Picture Quote #1

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts Picture Quote #1

One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one’s eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress Picture Quote #1

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values Picture Quote #1

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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital Picture Quote #1

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness Picture Quote #1

Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts Picture Quote #1

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man Picture Quote #1

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises Picture Quote #1

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts Picture Quote #1

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It’s time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat Picture Quote #1

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts Picture Quote #1

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts Picture Quote #1

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us Picture Quote #1

Sensationalism sells: Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story Picture Quote #1

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin Picture Quote #1

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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them? Picture Quote #1

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head Picture Quote #1

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right Picture Quote #1

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place Picture Quote #1

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There’s a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can’t alter Picture Quote #1

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts Picture Quote #1

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Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision (Facts Quotes) If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid (Facts Quotes) Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing (Facts Quotes) The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time (Facts Quotes) Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders (Facts Quotes) For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts (Facts Quotes) Facts are ventriloquist’s 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 (Facts Quotes) A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them (Facts Quotes) Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law (Facts Quotes) The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts (Facts Quotes) One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one’s eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress (Facts Quotes) What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values (Facts Quotes) It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital (Facts Quotes) In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness (Facts Quotes) Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts (Facts Quotes) He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man (Facts Quotes) Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises (Facts Quotes) I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts (Facts Quotes) It’s time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat (Facts Quotes) The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts (Facts Quotes) All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts (Facts Quotes) We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us (Facts Quotes) Sensationalism sells: Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story (Facts Quotes) The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin (Facts Quotes) Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them? (Facts Quotes) Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head (Facts Quotes) We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right (Facts Quotes) In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place (Facts Quotes) You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There’s a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can’t alter (Facts Quotes) It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts (Facts Quotes)

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