Iyad Allawi Quotes

Without facts you can't have truth.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

No authority is higher than reality.

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

Truth is in things, and not in words.

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

Facts are better than dreams.

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.

I deal in facts.

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

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

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.

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

Facts are stubborn things.

Reality is what you can count on.

Truth cannot be defeated.

Never confuse wishes with facts.

Facts are placed before reasonings and before ideals, even though the reasonings and the ideals be more beautiful, be seemingly more lofty, be seemingly better, be seemingly truer. The seemingly absurd and the seemingly impossible are sometimes true. The scientific disposition is to accept facts upon evidence, however absurd they may appear to our pre-conceptions.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

Fact doesn't have to be plausible; it just has to be fact.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

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