A Quote by George Washington

Facts may speak for themselves.

George Washington

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George Washington
American - President
February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Thomas Sowell

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

Patrick Kavanagh

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

David Seabury

[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may be facts about bad things, and his intellectual satisfaction can come only from the acquisition of accurately known facts, from their organization into a body of knowledge, in which the inter-relationship of the measured facts is the dominant consideration.

Robert Watson-Watt

Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.

David Mamet

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

Stephen Jay Gould

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Milton Friedman

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

Ralph Chaplin

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Alfred Marshall

I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world - if it does, it is now or will eventually be wrong - but it can and should speak about the relevance and ranking of facts and observations.

Erik Naggum

Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new story.

Blake Mycoskie

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out.

David Byrne

Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.

Eric Schlosser

Mark Viduka, Nicolas Anelka and Michael Owen are all top strikers and the facts speak for themselves.

Graeme Souness

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Harold S. Geneen

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

Milton Friedman

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