Eric Hoffer Quotes

Without facts you can't have truth.

Facts are better than dreams.

I deal in facts.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Truth cannot be defeated.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Seek truth from facts.

No authority is higher than reality.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

Facts are stubborn things.

The most difficult thing for a manager to determine is when a fact is really a fact.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

Facts are placed before reasonings and before ideals, even though the reasonings and the ideals be more beautiful, be seemingly more lofty, be seemingly better, be seemingly truer. The seemingly absurd and the seemingly impossible are sometimes true. The scientific disposition is to accept facts upon evidence, however absurd they may appear to our pre-conceptions.

Facts matter, especially when they conflict with dogma and preconceived notions. Pretending otherwise has consequences.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

Fact doesn't have to be plausible; it just has to be fact.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

The facts are on our side.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.