Richard Wright Quotes

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

Evidence exhausts the truth.

Above all else show the data.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

We need proof in our society.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

You can tell so many facts that you never get to the truth

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

Without facts you can't have truth.

You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a historian. You believe these things because they're facts, proved by evidence.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

The facts are facts and records are records.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Facts speak plainer than words

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know.

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.