Facts Quotes

The task on our part is twofold: First, as simple patriotism requires, to separate the false from the real issues; and, secondly, with facts and without rancor, to clarify the real problems for the American public.

We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

United wishes and goodwill cannot overcome brute facts.

Facts are better than dreams.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

You must look at facts because they look at you.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn't get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

When on board H.M.S. 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America.

It was evident that such facts as these, as well as many others, could only be explained on the supposition that species gradually become modified; and the subject haunted me.

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.