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Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.

I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

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

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

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

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

A concept is stronger than a fact.