When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
Al Gore

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Gustave Flaubert

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
Alec Baldwin

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Salman Rushdie

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
Chevy Chase

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
Alan Alda

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
Studs Terkel

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis Diderot

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
Floyd Abrams

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
Floyd Abrams

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Arthur Conan Doyle

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster

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

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
Tryon Edwards