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

The Gentle ReaderFacts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.William C. Redfield, Address at Case School, Cleveland, Ohio, May 27, 1915

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunther (1901 - 1970)

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.Felix Cohen

Where facts are few, experts are many.Donald R. Gannon