"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
— Mark Twain

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
— Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
— Albert Einstein

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

"You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."
— Henri Poincare (Science and Hypothesis)

"So you have to accept facts as fact."
— Ai Yazawa

"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "
— Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values)

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable."
— Mark Twain

"Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so stay wasted all the time and enjoy the time of your life."
— Amanullah Ashraf

"Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites]. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old- which is apparently about the average age for a pillow- it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of 'sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung' "
— Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)

"Facts are ventriloquist’s 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 (Time Must Have a Stop)

"The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. Over-closeness, the noise and heat of being. Perhaps even something deeper like the need to survive. Murray says we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into things, the looser our structure may seem to become. The family process works towards sealing off the world. Small errors grow heads, fictions proliferate. I tell Murray that ignorance and confusion can’t possibly be the driving forces behind family solidarity. What an idea, what a subversion. He asks me why the strongest family units exist in the least developed societies. Not to know is a weapon of survival, he says. Magic and superstition become entrenched as the powerful orthodoxy of the clan. The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What a heartless theory, I say. But Murray insists it’s true."
— Don DeLillo (White Noise)

"Listening can save lives."
— Ursula Kajani

"A fish out of water is out of it's content,because it is out of it's element;an eagle in a cave is most miserable because it is out of it's element.An eagle was created to soar high in the sky. "
— Emmanuel Otoo

"Depression affects 20 percent of all women, 10 percent of all men, and 5 percent of all adolescents worldwide (7)."
— Eleanor H. Ayer (Everything You Need to Know About Depression)

"Grown-up people find it difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything, and grown-ups know this. That is why they tell you that the earth is round like an orange, when you can see perfectly well that it is flat and lumpy; and why they say that the earth goes round the sun, when you can see for yourself any day that the sun gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night like a good sun as it is, and the earth knows its place, and lies as still as a mouse. Yet I daresay you believe all that about the earth and the sun, and if so you will find it quite easy to believe that before Anthea and Cyril and the others had been a week in the country they had found a fairy."
— Edith Nesbit

"Men grow smaller with age, women invisible."
— Ivana Hruba

"Never let the facts get in the way of the truth."
— Dr. Lightman

"The interruptions at which we chafe are the credentials of our indispensability."
— Emmanuel Otoo

"The dandelion was long popularly known as the 'pissabed' because of its supposed diuretic properties, and other names in everyday use included 'mare's fart', 'naked ladies', 'twitch-ballock', 'hounds-piss', 'open arse', and 'bum-towel'."
— Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)

"Face the facts, not the consequences."
— Sobia Haleem

"When in trouble, run away"
— Sobia Haleem

"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding."
— Marshall McLuhan (The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man)

"It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"More than 5 percent of Americans--some 18 million people--suffer from clinical depression at any given moment (10)."
— Eleanor H. Ayer (Everything You Need to Know About Depression)

"An enduring myth is that people with depression cannot function, when actually 72 percent of depressed individuals remain in the workforce (12)."
— Eleanor H. Ayer (Everything You Need to Know About Depression)

"The truth is more important than the facts."
— Frank Lloyd Wright