“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.”
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
“We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.”
“No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.”
“Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.”
“I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.”
“A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.”
“One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.”
“She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.”
“Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.”
“I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.”
“The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.”
“Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.”
“The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.”
“Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.”
“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”
“One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.”
“What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?”
“Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.”
“It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion”
“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.”
“A fact is like a sack -- it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.”
“I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.”
“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.”
“Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”
“Facts are ventriloquists 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.”
“I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.”
“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.”
“The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.”
“General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.”