Grown-up people find it difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything, and grown-ups know this. That is why they tell you that the...

Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it’s dangerous.

Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n’est pas plus une science qu’un tas de pierres n’est une...

I do not have all the facts on the significance of these ordinances; however, I am willing to discuss the need and make an appropriate decision when fully advised.

Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

This is a desperate maneuver to avoid a legal confrontation where the facts and evidence presented will overwhelmingly support enforcement of the South Dakota abortion ban. The court will recognize the evidence that human life...

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

It’s disappointing to lose to an in-state school. But that’s the facts of life right now. We had some guys who just didn’t show up. When we have guys who don’t show up, we’re going...

mas” (a celebration)? The story about Jesus is found in the name of that special day when we celebrate His birth!

At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures...

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

The administration does not oppose some assistance to the airlines, but given the economic facts on the ground, we believe that the level of airline assistance recommended by the House and Senate Committees are excessive.

Her favorite stepping-aside technique was to lay out a dizzying mountain of complex steps and then pronounce the conclusion self-evident. Excuse me? Things that are self-evident don’t need you or the presentation anyway. Relying only...

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context—in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We...

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

We always need a motivation, in order for us to meet our full potential at work.

It is possible to know all the facts and still know nothing.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

The ocean is six miles deep.

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is...

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

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

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself...

… those selling abortion don’t want them to have [the facts],” Virginia said heatedly. “Besides the Supreme Court doesn’t agree with you. They judges seem to think we poor women would fall apart if we...

The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jennings Bryan, but he fails to hear a single sound. The earth speaks from the remotest periods in its...

The policy is very clear. We still don’t have all the facts of what took place.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

The facts will become clear when the band files its answer–and cross-claim. He was an absentee manager. He breached his agreement and his fiduciary duties.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

Statements of fact are after all statements, which presumes a number of questionable judgements: that those statements are worth making, perhaps more worth making than certain others, that I am the sort of person entitled...

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world

Truth is not what we want to see, but to make us see that which is amply visible even if not seen.

I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.

The facts on the ground have changed.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what...

Only after that I can disclose any facts and details.

We had a good meeting and provided the PUD with a lot of facts and figures.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do now, there never could have been one believer in the doctrine of...

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn’t. We can’t compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We’re dealing with...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their...

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art