Voltaire Quotes

Facts speak plainer than words

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

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

I think the truth is black-and-white.

Facts are stubborn things.

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

It is not hard to get men to agree when the facts are known.

Facts are better than dreams.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

It is fortunate when disputed theories can be decided by undisputed facts.

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.

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

You can't argue with the truth.

Without facts you can't have truth.

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

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

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

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.