Subject: Beliefs » Facts (Page 3)

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

(1907 – 1953) American lawyer & scholar
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 Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

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

(1886 – 1975) American fiction writer
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Statistics are no substitute for common sense.

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

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
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The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

(1905 –1998) American author
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist
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One could drive a schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

(1866 – 1940) academic, businessman & politician
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