Quotes with facts

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  • Edmund Burke Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos 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.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • Aldous Huxley Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Elsa Schiaparelli Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bertolt Brecht For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Mark Twain Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Lord Chesterfield History is but a confused heap of facts.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Santayana I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Robert Fulghum I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
    Robert Fulghum
    American author and minister (1937 - )
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  • Will Rogers I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Lee Iacocca 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.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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