| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Allting är enkelt såvida man organiserar det faktiska systematiskt. | Agatha Christie (1890-1976) |
| Att vara medveten om att man inte känner till fakta är ett stort steg mot kunskap. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Bevis: ett påstående som är någon grad mer sannolikt än osannolikheten. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| En smula oklarhet sparar en värld av förklaringar. | C. E. Ayres |
| Ett faktum är svårt att dölja - lyckas det på ena sidan, så sticker det ut på en annan. | Cora Sandel |
| Fakta till sinnet är som mat till kroppen. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Fakta upphör inte att existera bara för att man inte bryr sig om dem. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Fakta upphör inte att existera därför att de ignoreras. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Fakta vi accepterar är de som stämmer med våra värderingar. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Fakta är buktalardockor. När de sitter i knät på en vis man kan de fås att säga visa ord; på andra ställen säger de ingenting, eller pratar strunt, eller ägnar sig åt ren djävulskap. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Fakta är buktalardockor. När de sitter i knät på en vis man kan de fås att säga visa ord; på andra ställen säger de ingenting, eller pratar strunt, eller ägnar sig åt rent djävulskap. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Fakta är fakta och kommer inte försvinna bara för att du inte gillar dem. | Jawaharlal Nehru (om Indira Gandhi) (1889-1964) |
| Historia är blott en förvirrad samling fakta. | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| Ingen kan vara så underhållande som den som är obunden av fakta. | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| Ingenting är så värdelöst som en allmän maxim. | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| Kom inte dragandes med fakta. Det komplicerar bara saken. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Problemet med fakta är att det finns så många. | Samuel McChord Crothers |
| Skaffa fakta först, du kan förvränga dem senare. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Skaffa fakta först; sen kan du misshandla dem som du vill. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Ta först reda på fakta. Därefter kan du förvränga dem som du vill. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Trassla inte till saken genom att komma dragande med fakta. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Vitsen är en lek med ord, kvickheten är en lek med folk och fakta, humorn är en lek med livet. | Al Gore (1948-2001) |
| 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 (1948-2001) |
| Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. | Dr. Linus Pauling (1901-1994) |
| A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. | Edward Teller (1908-) |
| 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 (1923-) |
| 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 (1902-1984) |
| Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. | Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) |
| The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. | William Allen White (1868-1944) |
| The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. | William MacNeile Dixon |
| Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance | Hippocrates |
| Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory | Stephen Jay Gould (1941-) |
| 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 (1923-) |
| I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death | Robert Fulghum (1937-) |
| The truth is more important than the facts. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. | William Allen White (1868-1944) |
| Facts are many, but the truth is one. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before | Sir Thomas More (1477-1535) |
| 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 | Sir Thomas More (1477-1535) |
| A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. | Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
| I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| Attitudes are more important than facts. | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| 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 (1902-1984) |
| Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes | Jawaharlal Nehru (om Indira Gandhi) (1889-1964) |
| A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. | Edward Teller (1908-) |
| Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
| Facts are carpet-tacks under the pneumatic tires of theory | Austin O'Malley |
| Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable | Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) |
| Facts are counterrevolutionary | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| No facts to me are sacred; none are profane. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| But facts are facts and flinch not | Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| Facts are stupid things. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| People are constantly saying, 'How's it feel to have such an impact?' I just want to be funny. I'm a comedian, not a political thinker. We're changing the world one factual error at a time. | Stephen Colbert (1964-) |
| I'm not a fan of facts. You see, facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are. | Stephen Colbert (1964-) |
| Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory | Stephen Jay Gould (1941-) |
| Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures | Sydney Smith (1771-) |
| The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. | William Allen White (1868-1944) |