Quotes with facts

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  • Abraham Robinson As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
    Abraham Robinson
    Polish mathematician (1918 - 1974)
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  • Barry Sternlicht As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Robert Browning But facts are facts and flinch not.
    The ring and the book
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Charles Prestwich Scott Comment is free but facts are sacred.
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  • C. P. Scott Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
    C. P. Scott
    British journalist, publisher and politician (full name Charles Prestwich Scott) (1846 - 1932)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Clarence Day Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
    Clarence Day
    American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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  • John Updike Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Caleb Cushing Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • William Faulkner Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Eric Hoffer Facts are counterrevolutionary.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • John Updike Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Tryon Edwards Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Adams Facts are stubborn things.
    In een rechtzaal, 4 december 1770
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Frederick Hudson Ecker Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.
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