In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
Stephen Colbert

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Stephen Colbert

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Arnold H. Glasow

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold H. Glasow

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James

Seek truth from facts.
Deng Xiaoping

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
Charles Horton Cooley

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer

To hell with facts! We need stories!
Ken Kesey

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
Simon Travaglia

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes