Subject: Beliefs » Facts

Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys,

Are never valued till they make a noise.

(1754 – 1832) English poet, surgeon & clergyman

The cure to information overload is more information.

(1950 – ) American technologist, commentator, author & editor

1. The information you have is not what you want. 2. The information you want is not what you need. 3. The information you need is not what you can obtain. 4. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Any theory can be made to fit any facts by means of appropriate additional assumptions.

1. Anyone can make a decision given enough facts. 2. A good manager can make a decision without enough facts. 3. A perfect manager can operate in perfect ignorance.

The truth is more important than the facts.

(1867 – 1959) architect, interior designer, writer & educator

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

(1807 – 1873) paleontologist, glaciologist & geologist

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

(1962 – ) writer & journalist

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

(1905 –1998) American author

1. Any great truth can – and eventually will – be expressed as a cliche.

2. Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

Science is Truth. Don't be misled by fact.

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts – not the facts themselves.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

(1880 – 1946) Baltic German philosopher

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

(1833 – 1896) Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator & armaments manufacturer

Figures won’t lie, but liars can figure.

(1911 – 1993) columnist & novelist

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

 Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

college football coach

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

(1899 – 1995) humorist