I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn read more

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? read more

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.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing

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

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

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need read more

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that read more

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

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

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

A fact is like a sack --it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you read more

A fact is like a sack --it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.