Quotes on “facts”

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.