You might wish to keep your favorite of these in mind as you hear dissections of what the candidates said at tonightโs debate, and the Presidential debates to come.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain
If the facts donโt fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Facts and truth really donโt have much to do with each other.
William Faulkner
Thereโs a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney
It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. โฆ And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.
Rachel Maddow
Trust your hunches. Theyโre usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers
And this oneโฆ
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because weโre hardwired not to always think clearly when weโre scared.
Barack Obama
And this oneโฆ
Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
Ruth Gordon
Carole