Fran Tarkenton Quotes

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Seek truth from facts.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

Never confuse wishes with facts.

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

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

There's no such thing as alternative facts.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

No authority is higher than reality.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.'