Approval Quote by J. H. Plumb

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in…

— C. V. Wedgwood

Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are…

— Mortimer Adler

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement…

— Ken Burns

“Never in the history of the world have we had easier access to more information - some of it true, some of it false,…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining…

— Walter Raleigh

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has…

— Ambrose Bierce

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants,…

— Stephen Leacock

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not…

— John Malkovich

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

— Franz Kafka

“That’s right, but it’s not a mathematical proposition. It’s a sociological observation and there is always the possibility of exceptions to such observations." -…

— Isaac Asimov

It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating…

— Dennis Lindley

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte