FAction Quotes
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."— Mark Twain
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Meaning of this quote
The humor exposes the way people bend accurate information to suit an argument.
Key takeaway:
Check the facts and resist twisting them to fit your preference.
Origin of the quote
Recorded by Rudyard Kipling in his interview with Twain; collected in From Sea to Sea (1899), chapter 37.
Who actually said this?
An attributed remark recorded by an interviewer, rather than a statement taken from a Twain manuscript.
