Subject: Beliefs » Facts

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts – not the facts themselves.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

(1905 –1998) American author

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

(1962 – ) writer & journalist

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

(1880 – 1946) Baltic German philosopher

Science: An orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be the facts.

USA Today has come out with a new survey; apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

I Will Respect Your Opinion As Soon As You Stop Making Shit Up!

The cure to information overload is more information.

(1950 – ) American technologist, commentator, author & editor

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

(1857 – 1927) Unitarian Universalist minister

Statistics are no substitute for common sense.

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.

(1897-1962) American writer

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

There are two kinds of statistics; those you look up and those you make up.

(1886 – 1975) American fiction writer

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

(1833 – 1896) Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator & armaments manufacturer

Science is Truth. Don't be misled by fact.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Facts are stubborn things.

(1721 – 1771) Scottish poet & author

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor