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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. Bertrand Russell Facts 710
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams Facts 466
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. Ralph Waldo Emerson Facts 250
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. Jawaharlal Nehru Facts 188
The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it. Danish proverbs Facts 173
A concept is stronger than a fact. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Facts 138
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right. Edward Simmons Facts 122
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. Mark Twain Facts 120
Seek truth from facts. Deng Xiaoping Facts 109
The fatal futility of Fact. Henry James Facts 107
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. Claude Bernard Facts 103
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley Facts 102
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong. Thomas Fuller Facts 100
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. Paul Eldridge Facts 100
Science is facts. Henri Poincare Facts 98
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo Buonarroti Facts 95
Measure three times before you cut once. Proverbs Facts 94
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. Friedrich Nietzsche Facts 93
Memory can change the shape of a room it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. Theyre just an interpretation theyre not a record and theyre irrelevant if you have the facts. Leonard Shelby Memento Christopher Nolan Facts 92
These are facts, these are not imaginary things. Iyad Allawi Facts 90
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other. John Dewey Facts 89
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. Rod Serling Facts 87
I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one. John Sherman Cooper Facts 86
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 Facts 86
The moment you step into the world of facts, you step into the world of limits. You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. G.K. Chesterton Facts 85
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner. Ralph Waldo Emerson Facts 84
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. Thomas Henry Huxley Facts 84
Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you. Frederick Hudson Ecker Facts 84
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side. Ralph Waldo Emerson Facts 82
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Arthur Conan Doyle Facts 80
Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. Charles Caleb Colton Facts 80
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true. Carl R. Rogers Facts 79
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before. Source Unknown Facts 78
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. Francois FeNelon Facts 78
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. Robert Peel Facts 76
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. Bernard Baruch Facts 76
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth. William C. Redfield Facts 75
Facts are stubborn things. Ronald Reagan Facts 74
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. Tryon Edwards Facts 71
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. Junius Facts 70
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. Adlai Stevenson Facts 69
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley Facts 69
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. Henri Poincare Facts 68
Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification. James Gordon Bennett Facts 68
Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure. Thornton Wilder Facts 66
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought -- with these I deal. Henry David Thoreau Facts 64
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Heraclitus Facts 63
In a major matter no details are small. Paul De Gondi Facts 63
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. Thomas Henry Huxley Facts 62
The facts are always less than what really happened. Nadine Gordimer Facts 62

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