Truth or facts?

"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright

Ever since Debbie quoted that phrase to me, I've been pondering about it in the context of law. What do judges really do? They look at the facts and try to determine the truth as per the law. What do most lawyers do? They twist the law, fit the facts into its compartments, and portray it as the truth. How do people react? They determine the 'truth' based on their own convictions and then judge the facts. In actual fact, I have not decided what the true interrelationship between truth and fact is. But there have so far been two thoughts which I found interesting in relation to this train of thought. Let me share them with you.

"The manufacture of a five-pronged implement for manual digging results in a fork even if the manufacturer, unfamiliar with the English language, insists that he intended to make and has made a spade." - Per Lord Templeman in Street v Mountford [1985]


"It does not rain simply because the weatherman said it would". - per YingKs