Facts ask for clear eyes and honest context. As philosopher J. L. Austin hinted, “Fact is richer than diction.”

Facts are meaningless, you can use facts to prove anything that's remotely true. ~ Homer Simpson

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related, and rightly interpreted. ~ William Jennings Bryan

A fact is like a sack — it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place. ~ Luigi Pirandello

I might show facts as plain as day: but since your eyes are blind, you'd say, “Where? What?” and turn away. ~ Christina Rossetti, Poetical Works

Never accept a fact until it is verified by a theory! ~ Arthur Eddington

Facts are the raw material for thinking. ~ Robert E. Sparks

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ~ Aldous Huxley

We (the FBI) are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody. ~ J. Edgar Hoover

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. ~ Ivan Pavlov

I'm not afraid of facts — I welcome facts — but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers. ~ Cynthia Ozick

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning. ~ Marlo Thomas

If you get all the facts, your judgment may be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right. ~ Bernard M. Baruch

All solid facts were originally mist. ~ Henry S. Haskins

A concept is stronger than a fact. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ~ Edward Teller

A thousand probabilities do not make one fact. ~ Italian Proverb

A wonderful fact to reflect upon — that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. ~ Charles Dickens