Marlo Thomas

"Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning."

- Marlo Thomas, actor and social activist

Ronald Reagan

"Facts are stupid things."

- Ronald Reagan, former US president

Aldous Huxley

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

- Aldous Huxley, author and critic

John Henry Newman

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."

- John Henry Newman, Roman priest and cardinal