Misleading Facts Quotes

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.

Sentences defended as literally accurate can mislead.