Quotes About Facts

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

Rumors are the children of truth.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

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