facts Quotes

“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.”

“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”

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

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”

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

“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”

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

“The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.”

“What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts not the facts themselves.”

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