A Quote by Joseph Addison

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

Joseph Addison

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Aversion Facts Figures Hopes Plain Spoken

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Joseph Addison
English - Writer
May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Sydney Smith

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

Charles Van Doren

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

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out.

David Byrne

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

Gertrude Stein

I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.

Larry Hogan

[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may be facts about bad things, and his intellectual satisfaction can come only from the acquisition of accurately known facts, from their organization into a body of knowledge, in which the inter-relationship of the measured facts is the dominant consideration.

Robert Watson-Watt

Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.

Kin Hubbard

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

Nelson Rodrigues

Rely on facts, figures, principles of equality and fairness.

Steven Petrow

Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in this age of Trump as President, alternative facts, falsehoods becoming truth at the send of a tweet, it's vital that spoken word poetry does its job helping to keep folks 'woke' and not numb or shut down.