#facts

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead! ↗

— George S. Patton

#battle #before #collected #counsel #decision

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#bird #enable #facts #fly #man

So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric. ↗

— John Podesta

#dialogue #discussion #facts #gives #hungry

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ↗

— Will Rogers

#facts #government #i #jokes #just

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#academia #also #carpet #course #courtroom

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#agree #already #believe #facts #generally

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. ↗

— Mark Twain

#distort #facts #first #get #please

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#example #facts #good #memory #serve

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. ↗