Quotes About Facts

But correct and right were two different things. As were facts and truth.

All the mistakes I've made have been because I've assumed something and then acted as though it was fact. Very dangerous, Agent Lemieux. Believe me. I wonder if you haven't already leaped to a false conclusion?

Yes, facts were necessary. But frankly, anyone could be trained to collect a bloodstain or find a hair. Or an affair. Or a bank balance that didn't balance. But feelings? Only the bravest wandered into that fiery realm.

Change the facts and you'll change the feelings." Chapter 20 · Page 175 · Location 3170

Don't you generate theories, based on probability, and then eliminate them as facts come in? Isn't that how you find killers?" "Very true. But we also have to consider emotions. How we feel about things influences how we see them.

The book was called How to Lie with Statistics.

Change the facts and you'll change the feelings.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics?

He hated it, hated it, when Gamache pushed him like that. Not physically, but pushed him to consider feelings. Beliefs. Emotions. When Gamache insisted that they could possibly be as important as thoughts. As facts.

Today the apologists of socialism are forced to distort facts and to misrepresent the manifest meaning of words when they want to make people believe in the compatibility of socialism and freedom.

Now, which food has more protein—broccoli or steak? You were wrong if you thought steak. Steak has only 6.4 grams of protein per 100 calories and broccoli has 11.1 grams, almost twice as much.21

People know less about nutrition than any other subject.

which food has more protein—broccoli or steak? You were wrong if you thought steak. Steak has only 6.4 grams of protein per 100 calories and broccoli has 11.1 grams, almost twice as much.

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes on in you without your having to do anything about it). . .

Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?

Presence ... reminds us of the important facts, lest they be forgotten -- the virtues of faith and the absolute need for forgiveness of one's enemies.

It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?