Quotes about facts
50 quotes from 40 people
- WFWilliam Feather1889–1981Featherisms (2008)
Robert Frost1874–1963A Boy’s Will (1913, 1915), MowingIf any theories or opinions of mine can be damaged by facts, so much the worse for my theories.
James A. Garfield1831–1881Commissioner Wells’s Report. Remarks made in the House of Representatives, January 1869. Quoted in
Werner Herzogborn 1942Minnesota declaration (1999)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 1
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Proper Studies (1927), “Note on Dogma”- Aldous Huxley1894–1963Time Must Have a Stop (1944), Ch. 30 (Bruno Rontini)
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
William James1842–1910“The Will to Believe” p. 10
Norman Mailer1923–2007Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
James Clerk Maxwell1831–1879Letter to Lewis Campbell (9 November 1851), in Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882), ch. 6, p. 159Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan1927–2003Often credited to UnattributedIn the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense
