Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

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

What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.

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.

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.