Competing Quote by Thomas Sowell

Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the…

— Milton Friedman

Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory,…

— Oliver Heaviside

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Facts may speak for themselves.

— George Washington

“It is a common weakness that when concrete facts do not match up with our preconceived theories, we prefer to keep our theories and…

— Raphael Gasson

Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

— William Jennings Bryan

Facts are the words of God, and we may heap them together endlessly, but they will teach us little or nothing till we place…

— Louis Agassiz

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

— Fulton J. Sheen

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

— Anonymous

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

— Alfred Adler