Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikola Tesla

So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet...

Niels Bohr

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

Nat Friedman

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Things always become obvious after the fact

Marilynne Robinson

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Lee Child

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

Peter Drucker

No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.

Peter Drucker

The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.

Peter Drucker

One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

Maurice Allais

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

Maya Angelou

Tell the truth and not the facts.

Maya Angelou

Facts can obscure the truth.

Mark Levin

The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.

Mason Cooley

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

Margaret Sanger

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Michael Lewis

Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

Michael Faraday

I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.

Michael Bloomberg

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Neal Stephenson

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life is bendable to our will more than we know. In fact, that's the deal. If we don't know that life bends to our will, it will not. So the trick is to know that life is on our side -- and but awaits our command.

Nandan Nilekani

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

Margaret Wertheim

Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

Marcel Proust

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

Joseph Addison

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

John Updike

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

James Jeans

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

James Hansen

Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.

Libba Bray

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

Friedrich Engels

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Without a theory the facts are silent.

Harvey Mackay

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.