Facts proverbs

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◆ If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

- John Muir99

◆ Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

- Karl Marx99

◆ If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

- Thomas Henry Huxley99

◆ Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

- John Adams99

◆ You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

- Mark Twain99

◆ For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

- Robert M. Pirsig99

◆ I'm a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.

- Dora J. Arod99

◆ The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

- E.M. Forster99

◆ In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

- David Hume99

◆ I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives.

- Seymour Simon99

◆ I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

- Veronica Roth99