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

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

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and read more

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.

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

I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos read more

I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing

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

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

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.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful read more

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death