facts Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about facts.
“Attitudes are more important than facts.”
- George MacDonald
“Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.”
- Francis Parker Yockey
“Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.”
- Evan Esar
“Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.”
- Margaret Sanger
“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
- Albert Einstein
“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.”
- William Ralph Inge
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.”
- Thomas Moore
“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”
- William S. Burroughs
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
- Henry Adams
“May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.”
- Joseph Lancaster