Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Chuck Palahniuk

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

John Dewey

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!

Matt Groening

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

Scott Westerfeld

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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 Adams

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

Louis Agassiz

Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Jessamyn West

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunther

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Samuel McChord Crothers

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Henry Kissinger

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Dr. Linus Pauling

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

Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

Mark Twain

It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

William Macneile Dixon

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.

George Orwell

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Facts are stupid things.

Ronald Reagan

I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.

Bill Clinton

Paranoia means having all the facts.

William S. Burroughs

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We certainly don't agree with this particular verdict. The verdict was not based on all the available facts because those facts were not presented to the jury for their consideration. We will appeal.

Beth Harbin

They could easily test it and provide those facts, but they don't.

Martin Uman

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

Al Gore

In the absence of facts, the IAAF cannot and will not do anything.

Istvan Gyulai

I'm living proof that a monkey can try a case if the facts are good.

Kevin Luibrand

All of these facts became the perfect recipe at that time for someone to get away with an act that we absolutely don't condone.

Richard Rodriguez

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Bernard M. Baruch

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

Karl Urban

We haven't conducted any discovery. They are trying to hide the facts of this case because they don't want them to come out.

Gregg Zeff

We're going through the facts with the government. I don't think there's a crime here. Nothing's decided.

Mark Tuohey

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.

Christina G. Rossetti

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

Benedict Spinoza

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Randall Jarrell

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Thomas Hobbes

(The suspension) is not a disciplinary action. It is to give us enough time to sit down and gather all the facts.

Tustin Amole

I have to admit that I am annoyed to end a career with sanctions that I don't deserve based on facts that are not the truth.

Jean Pelletier

The bleeding has got to stop. The district is not performing well, and it's got to face the grueling facts.

Michael Clough

When it sounds too bad to be true, Oprah, dry your eyes and check the facts.

Michelle Malkin

We'll put out the facts.

Robert Rogers

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Adam M. Smith

It's refreshing to see a court go by the facts. Everybody said they are a great family.

Patricia Logue

It still may turn out to be an accident, but it's looking less and less likely based on the facts.

Andrew Jarvis

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

William James

Where's the proof here? I have no facts, just allegations.

Robert Keats

Seek truth from facts.

Deng Xiaoping

This isn't to be dramatic, this is just cold, hard facts.

Mike Collins

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Charles Scott

We will not rush to judgment until we have our own facts in order.

Peter Daniels

I think the jury came to the right decision based on all the facts in the case. I think they came back with the only verdict they could based on all the facts.

Chris Watson

We are still investigating the case with the full cooperation of both parties and we are still establishing the facts.

Faye Belnis

These facts are an embarrassment for those who see supernatural beliefs as a cultural anachronism, soon to be eroded by scientific discoveries and the spread of cosmopolitan values.

Paul Bloom

Until I know all the facts and see what the outcome ... is, I'm really not going to make any comment one way or another.

Gary Dawson

It's all based on the facts, but there are some things that are unknown, ... It's animated by its own sense of imagination.

Douglas Mcgrath

Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.

Frederick Hudson Ecker

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

I don't think 13 times is out of line depending whatever the facts of the case are.

Barbara Crawford

I was very confident that he had the facts and that he would make a rational decision.

Tommy West

Because of the facts in this case and all the facts surrounding her life and family... and the evidence.

John Barnett

Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

Russell R. McIntyre

We believe that the death penalty is not appropriate under the facts of this case.

Dennis Koehler

You don't have to be penniless, but you have to show why you can't pay. We look at the facts and circumstances of each case.

Brandon Roberts

It?s going to be a fact-driven exercise, and we are still in the process of gathering facts.

Bryan Lee

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Miguel de Cervantes

They already concluded what had happened and proceeded from there. They only took the facts that supported that.

Michael Riley

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Mortimer Adler

I'm delighted to deal with an entity that knows the facts.

Mario Gabelli

Never give up and never face the facts.

Ruth Gordon

They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.

Joseph Conrad

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

Gilbert Ryle

We don't have a lot of facts.

Rick Lane

Parents need all the facts. Not just the facts that come from the industry that benefits from the ... drugging of children.

Kelly Preston

It was very much Carol's style: Here are the facts. Let's get it done.

Jennifer Faliero

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Cleveland Amory

It ain't really what you'd call change. It's all happened before and it'll happen again with a different set of facts.

Gloria Naylor

Each case is based on its own merits and facts, but it has been my experience that a change of venue is very rarely granted.

Fran Humphries

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

James George Frazer

I can't tell anybody how to feel but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Robert Mcgowan

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Mary Mccarthy

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.

Charles McCabe

When all the facts and circumstances come to light, they are going to have an entirely different picture of this case.

Richard Schonfeld

Those are tendentious words without knowledge of the facts.

Peter Bienert

The bottom line is, different jury, different city, different facts.

Jacob Frenkel

Had I known these facts about Kidan, I would never have signed.

Jack Abramoff

Only after that I can disclose any facts and details.

Oliver Drewes

In off-the-record interviews with us, Frey admitted embellishing facts in the book for dramatic impact.

William Bastone

I don't go into a fight without the facts now.

Colin Clark

At this point, there is not anything big or exciting. That's the basic facts. We are just waiting to tie up loose ends.

Bill Vest

We're optimistic. There are some facts that make us optimistic although I can't discuss them for security reasons.

Lutfullah Mashal

Those who persist in accusing the school of criminal and evil conduct are turning their backs on the facts.

Sanford Bishop

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Henri Poincare

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Rabindranath Tagore

Concerning this specific allegation or any allegation that we screen... local politics have no bearing on what we do, ... We do our job according to the facts, evidence and law.

Michael Healey

We have a very strong case with good facts.

Hedy Weinberg

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Brooks Adams

The policy is very clear. We still don't have all the facts of what took place.

Jeremy Solomon

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

Norman Angell

The bill is way too broad and engenders a lot of emotion. We need to get through the emotion to the facts.

Larry Mckibben

All judges come with certain beliefs and life experiences and things like that. You have to be able to set those things aside and decide cases based upon the law and the facts that are before you.

Dean Colson

People critique the media if they're uncomfortable with the facts that are presented.

Jerry Fisher

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Bliss Carman

Has no knowledge of the facts of the murder.

Jack Abramoff

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

We are reviewing the facts of the situation and have no comment at this time.

Josh Krulewitz

We have the public support. We have the facts on our side.

Peter Fisher

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Mark Twain

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

It's one of those questions I can't answer specifically because I don't have the facts.

Brian Billick

I want to see some facts.

James Nichols

I've had people say 'would you call for a resignation' -- and I don't think it's the appropriate thing to do when we don't have all the facts.

Rob Ludeman

You gotta deal with the facts, it's good to know.

Peggy Johnson

Some facts are so simple that clever people can't accept them.

Robert Locke

We love debate of opinion. But we just want everyone to deal with the same set of facts.

Dick Rugge

They stayed with the facts, and we're very pleased with it.

James Gray

Bootlegged opinion with facts.

John Lloyd

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

Kathleen Casey Theisen

It's always better to live with whatever the facts are, however bad they are, than destroy the evidence.

William Lerach

We give you the facts to make an informed decision. We have to decide what we want to do as a community.

David Walsh

The facts are it was self-defense. It's more than a reasonable doubt.

Ralph Cingcon

We gave the commission facts.

Rob Simmons

The facts of the case justify Mr. Ashworth's execution, ... There has been nothing that occurred since the day of the crime to change the facts of the case or the law.

Robert Becker

We need to get out of the rumor stage and into the facts.

Bill Martus

It certainly fit the facts, and we're pleased with the verdict.

Marc Bennett

They have no facts or evidence to support the claim of repressed memory.

Charles F. Gay Jr

News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is no news, no news at all.

Anita Van

Of course, we don't know exactly all the facts and circumstances. But apparently, there had been a disagreement. We weren't there. We don't what all went on. But we know how it culminated. We know how it ended. It was tragic and horrible.

Bill Cox

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

Charles Prestwich Scott

Our study is all facts, ... We don't do a community survey.

Robert Rogers

However, a broker could not misrepresent the facts. If a broker is asked and he or she has knowledge, he or she must disclose it.

George Weber

There is a lot being said, but if you take a look at facts and fundamentals, we are doing what we can.

Ken Cohen

We are waiting for the investigation to run its course. It's through the investigation we will get the facts about where things can be improved.

Lara Ramsburg

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Martin H. Fischer

All the facts have been changed to get laughs at my expense. I hope you enjoy it.

Paula Abdul

In the absence of facts, people believe what they want to believe.

Jeff Butler

I think any company that can make a case that it has been damaged by the exclusionary acts affirmed in the Court of Appeals opinion would be able to use the facts from this case once the case becomes final.

Dana Hayter

Unless it's spiritual, a 'belief' can only be based on facts.

John Barker

But there are no automatic penalties. We always look at facts and specifics.

Gene Marsh

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Paul Eldridge

People remember stories, not facts.

Bev Twillmann

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Ruth Gordon

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Paul De Man

[You were watching] Battle of the Network Stars, ... The Facts of Life.

Heather Locklear

If you look at the facts of the case, it's amazing Gutierrez came up with the ruling he came up with.

Devon Measner

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I was satisfied that (Gee) genuinely wants to follow the facts ....

Barry Cohen

We want police to clarify the facts behind the scandal so it will not happen again.

Kazuo Kitagawa

This is about full disclosure so that people can make a choice based on knowing all the facts.

Margaret Blohm

The greatest American superstition is a belief in facts.

Hermann Keyserling

The rhetoric in general on both sides often had little connection to the facts.

Bill Plante

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Margaret Sanger

The American people are entitled to the facts. The grand jury is entitled to the facts. That is our job, to get the facts and we are going to do everything we can to get the facts.

Charles Bakaly

Facts are the air of the scientists. Without them you never can fly.

Ivan Pavlov

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Until I have all the facts.

Tom Reilly

Local news was really big. And the rewrites demanded specifics. The rewrites demanded facts.

Paul Zimbrakos

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 Rogers

It's a difficult decision to make given the political climate, but she saw through the rhetoric and she focused on the facts and the law.

David Henkin

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

Marlo Thomas

We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

Graham Greene

We're not saying everybody has to agree with us. But we want to make sure everyone has the facts.

Danny Lambeth

All law operates on the basis that if the facts change, then the law changes -- and the law is going to change.

Lord Falconer

When the facts come out (in court) it will be very clear why things happened when they happened. The context of this case within court will answer all ... questions.

Fern Adelstein

It's a straight-forward accident. The facts are not going to change. There's not going to be criminal wrongdoing.

Tom Harvey

The purpose of an Article 32 hearing is for us to engage witnesses and discover facts. We ended up with a c.i.d. agent and no alleged victims to examine.

Gary Myers

We don't encourage or discourage. We're just here to give them the facts. We don't pre-qualify them.

Betty Parker

We are recorders and reporters of the facts-not judges of the behavior we describe.

Alfred C. Kinsey

The facts and the science just don't support that.

Diane Sullivan

The President's address was lifeless, dull and directionless. It contained only hollow promises, contrary to facts.

Vk Malhotra

Our job is not public relations, ... It's to communicate facts.

Dennis Murphy

I believe the facts are clear and establish that the deputies had no viable option but to shoot when they did.

Mark Roe

New facts and circumstances.

Natalee Holloway

Those are high percentages when you look at the real facts.

Dennis Evans

It is kind-of the same issue, but they have added a couple of different elements to it, a couple of different facts. This is not a double jeopardy claim. The case was reversed on appeal.

Alan Curry

His offer doesn't change the facts: Ken Blackwell still says one thing and does another.

Bob Paduchik

Now you should expect facts on the ground to change as energy production and conservation come to the fore.

Robert Barbera

We will not be intimidated by anybody. We will do our job and base decisions on the facts, on the law.

Vusi Pikoli

We think any discipline is unwarranted given the facts and circumstances as we understand them.

Bill Mccorriston

Anything we do now, before the WTO meeting, could confuse the facts and we'd be creating an impediment to the WTO.

Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Unfortunately, in this case, there are no facts.

Michael Baigent

We are trying to interpret and ascertain the facts surrounding this case.

Frederick Jones

People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Sharon Anthony Bower

You can cite facts from now until tomorrow on either side of the argument. It's all irrelevant.

Jerry Fisher

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

We had confidence that when we were able to show what the facts were in this election that there would be no doubt who was really chosen by the majority of Greensboro voters.

Walter Braswell

He applied the wrong legal standard and ignored the facts.

Maria Lahood

They are coming up against a number of uncomfortable facts.

Richard Baum

I am very conscious that we need to do more to get the basic facts across.

Bill Rammell

The commission checked the request and concluded that the facts referring to the request were untrue.

Osama Atawia