Edward J. Flynn Quotes

Facts are better than dreams.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Facts are stubborn things.

the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

Do not believe just because you want to believe.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

Seek truth from facts.

No authority is higher than reality.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

The most difficult thing for a manager to determine is when a fact is really a fact.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can’t all be right. Better make certain that you’ve got something to be sincere about and with.

Knowledge is justified belief.