Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

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

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

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Facts are not interesting to me.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Facts are stubborn things.