Quotes About Facts

Maybe the problem is that no one is telling the truth about it. Maybe if there were more facts and fewer agendas, none of this would be happening.

No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.

The facts of life are conservative.

C — Curiosity. What's happening here? What are the facts?

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

Death cancels everything but truth

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution

If you cant find evidence to support something you believe in, keep searching. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

facts never disconfirm a good ideology

sense is made not by coercing the facts or pumping up the rhetorical volume. Sense is made by sifting through the sand of our ignorance to find, here and there, the words and thoughts that persuade ourselves (truly) and perhaps consequently to persuade others.

The Indian farmer suicide story is a myth built on tragic individual anecdotes and extrapolated to a whole country by those like Vandana Shiva with an ideological axe to grind and little concern about the true facts.

In other words, journalists should not seek and report facts as news, but launder their news gathering priorities and the facts themselves through a progressive ideology to give them meaning and purpose.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.