Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. – Thomas Sowell
I’m English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground. – Will Self
As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others. – Vincent Bugliosi
The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis. – Sergei Lavrov
There’s no such thing as ‘facts of life’. Only standing theories that haven’t been disproved as of yet. – Simon Travaglia
I’m duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them. – Stephanie Tubbs Jones
We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble. – Tom Freston
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution. – Theodosius Dobzhansky
The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system. – Talcott Parsons
The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence. – Simon Greenleaf
One of the great things about America is we should not judge until we know the facts. – Stanley A. McChrystal
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. – William Whewell
I’m a novelist – not an expert on coal mining. I’m not a politician with an agenda to push. I’m not a reporter presenting facts, and I’m not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I’m simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it’s where I come from, and it’s what I know. – Tawni O’Dell
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. – V. S. Naipaul
I don’t do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people’s actual lives don’t always conform. And you can’t know them that well. – Tom Drury
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. – Tom Stoppard
I discovered what it meant to ‘live for Christ,’ and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work. – Zach Johnson
Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. – William Lyon Mackenzie King
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. – Thomas Sowell
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. – Victor Hugo
I’m a working journalist. I’m interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions. – Tom Brokaw
Facts are God’s arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. – Tryon Edwards
As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts. – Theo Van Gogh
You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do. – Ta-Nehisi Coates
