Facts

• A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. — Claude Bernard
• Facts 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
• Comment is free but facts are sacred. — Charles P. Scott
• I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. — Anonymous
• We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. — F. Marion Smith
• 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.— Thomas Huxley
• Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. — Jawaharlal Nehru
• No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. — David Hum
• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. — Ralph Waldo Emerson