Quotes with facts

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche There are no facts, only interpretations.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Asa Gray There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Maya Angelou There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Adam Smith This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bertrand Russell Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ruth Gordon To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Felix Frankfurter To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Joyce Brothers Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
    Joyce Brothers
    American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
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  • Aldous Huxley Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alexander Pope We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Henry Miller We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Harry S. Truman We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Bliss Carman What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Thomas Carlyle What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Richard Dawkins What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Alan Alda When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Al Gore 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.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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