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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

I deal in facts.

Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.