William Finnegan Quotes

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

Facts do not constitute truth.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

Never confuse wishes with facts.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

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?

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.