We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die ... You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

When you have duly arrayed your facts in logical order, lo, it is like an oil-lamp that you have made, filled and trimmed, but which sheds no light unless first you light it.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

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

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

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.

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.

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

A wise man recognizes the convenience of a general statement, but he bows to the authority of a particular fact.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

The chief value of the new fact, is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up when it is empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which have caused it to exist.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.