How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

Facts are generally over-esteemed. 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.

No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Facts are stubborn things.