“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please”
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“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please”
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts”
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence”
“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts”
“Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts”
“Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature”
“But facts are facts and flinch not”
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact”
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are”
“Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.”
“Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.”