Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A belief may be larger than a fact.
The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
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.
Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.
People believe what they want to believe.
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
Belief creates the actual fact.