Quote by John le Carré

“The vital influences are to be detected not in the formal documents compiled by rulers, ministers, and generals but in their marginal notes and…

— B.H. Liddell Hart

“Then the horrid fact was disclosed that the new head had a mania for general information. He had doubts about the utility of examinations…

— W. Somerset Maugham

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Facts without context are like individuals without society. Just as an individual must find his or her place in society or else they are…

— Tom King

“Facts in our day are not the same as the facts in the time of Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas. But the principles by which…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Most of the time, there is no truth, only various levels of interpretation. Fact is a construct we provide to the public.”

— Lauren Willig

“Evidence is the debris of a careless mind.”

— Brian Farrey

“The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The facts are in the outside world. You can verify them with your senses or with objective tests. The truth is something that people…

— M.R. Carey

“Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Truths were carved from the identical wood as were lies--words--and so sank or floated with identical ease. But since truths were carved by the…

— R. Scott Bakker

Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.

— Epictetus