Harold S. Geneen Quotes

Without facts you can't have truth.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

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

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

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.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Every form of evidence has its flaws …

As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.

Just because someone says something, whether it's at the podium during the briefing or the president tweets, I can't always assume that's factual. That's insane. We have to be very quick on our toes in fact checking.

I state facts all the time.

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.