Quotes About Facts

Figures won’t lie, but liars will figure.

— Charles H. Grosvenor (attrib.)

The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts — the less you know, the hotter you get.

— Bertrand Russell

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

— Benjamin Disraeli (attrib.)

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

— Georges Braque

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

— Rex Stout

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than for illumination.

— Andrew Long

A wise man recognizes the convenience of a general statement, but he bows to the authority of a particular fact.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

— Mark Twain

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

— Aldous Huxley

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called “facts.”  They are brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

— Edmund Burke

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact.

— Winston Churchill

Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.

— Jesse L. Greenstein

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

— Samuel McChord Crothers

Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

— C. P. Scott

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions.  But no man has a right to be wrong about his facts.

— Bernard Baruch