Thomas Huxley Quotes

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Facts are stubborn things.

The most obdurate incredulity may be shamed or silenced by facts.

Facts are better than dreams.

Never confuse wishes with facts.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

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

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.

If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.

Evidence exhausts the truth.

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.