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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.