If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Proper Studies", 1927
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Donald R. Gannon
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohen
Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts.
Harper Lee (1926 - )
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations1, or the dictates2 of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams (1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense3 of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre4 Trials,' December 1770
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition5 was belief in facts.
John Gunther (1901 - 1970)
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Cardinal6 Newman (1801 - 1890)
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
Facts are stupid things.
Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.
William C. Redfield, Address at Case School, Cleveland, Ohio, May 27, 1915
