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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
-Carl R. Rogers
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I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and turn away.
-Christina Rossetti
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
-Philip Roth
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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
-Bertrand Russell
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
-Bertrand Russell
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. ... But so long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.
-Bertrand Russell
Unpopular Essays, Philosophy for Laymen
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
-George Santayana
The Letters of George Santayana
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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Comment is free but facts are sacred.
-Charles Prestwich Scott
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It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
-Rod Serling
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
-Charles Simmons
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The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
-Edward Simmons
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We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.
-F. Marion Smith
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Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
-Sydney Smith
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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
-Adlai Stevenson
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My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought -- with these I deal.
-Henry David Thoreau
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I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
-Lily Tomlin
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
-Mark Twain
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I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
-Source Unknown
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It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.
-Source Unknown
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Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment.
-Source Unknown
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
-Source Unknown
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Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
-John Updike
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
-Gore Vidal
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Books about Facts
