- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facts Quotes
What the evidence actually says.
These quotes treat facts as something almost alive: strange, unbelievable, worth chasing down. One line ties scientific honesty to national survival, another pushes back on accusations of media bias by insisting reporters are simply describing what happened, in the spirit of Knowledge quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.
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- Nov 07, 2020