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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.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

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

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.