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Facts may speak for themselves.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Major-General Greene, Jan. 22, 1780
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
CHARLES DICKENS, Hard Times
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
SALMAN RUSHDIE, Midnight's Children
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
G.K. CHESTERTON, "On the Classics," Selected Essays
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?
WASHINGTON IRVING, The Sketch Book
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