Quotes About Facts And Figures

#1. Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.

Will Ferrell

#2. Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

#3. Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

Grace Napolitano

#4. Anyway, knowledge isn't wisdom, and we aren't here just to stuff ourselves with facts and figures. We are given this life so we might earn the next; the gift is a chance to grow in spirit, and knowledge is one of the many nutrients that facilitate our growth.

Dean Koontz

#5. Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

Nelson Rodrigues

#6. Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk.

Monita Rajpal

#7. I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

Charles Van Doren

#8. But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires.

George MacDonald

#9. The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if anything, tend to dull and distract the creative intelligence, obscuring more than they reveal.

Ken Hollings

#10. Greeks are born talkers," wrote Harriet. The deputies were no exception, with or without their twirling conversation beads. They seldom used notes, at times she wished they had; a few facts and figures would have been a relief from the sweeping statements.

Mary Allsebrook

#11. Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

Alan Greenspan

#12. The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Alfred Marshall

#13. Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.

Richard Branson

#14. Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

Patrick Kavanagh

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

Mark Twain

#16. My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#17. Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Sonny Perdue

#18. Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Malcolm Forbes

#19. Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

Victor Ponta

#20. I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people ... that touch people emotionally.

Larry Winget

#21. When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.

Joe Sacco

#22. Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.

Ibn Warraq

#23. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

Will Smith

#24. This is a Hieronymous Bosch of facts and figures and blood and graphs.

Lorrie Moore

#25. Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

Anne Fortier

#26. The great and rare mystics of the past ... were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.

Ken Wilber

#27. I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.

Liam Neeson

#28. Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don't push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.

Hyman G. Rickover

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

Joseph Addison

#30. A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

Leon Festinger

#31. In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

Garry Kasparov

#32. She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

Richard Llewellyn

#33. Facts & figures go to the brain. And, the brain tends to forget . Stories go straight to the heart. They make us feel. And, the heart remembers.

Dawn Gluskin