facts

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

There are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths.

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

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.

Facts are stubborn things.

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

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.

Dodd acknowledged Congress's reluctance to become entangled abroad but added, "I do, however, think facts count; even if we hate them.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.

We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year's fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years.

Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!

Don__ conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!

Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.