Daily Inspiration Quote by Thomas Fuller

Fuller lands this like a pastor with a courtroom cadence: facts are not inert information, they are agents. “Get the facts, or the facts will get you” flips the usual power dynamic. You’re not the master of reality; reality will hunt you down if you ignore it. The line has the snap of a proverb, but its real force comes from the threat implied in “get you” - facts as consequence, as exposure, as moral reckoning.

As a 17th-century clergyman writing in an England rattled by civil war, sectarian propaganda, and shifting regimes, Fuller had good reason to treat truth as both fragile and combustible. In that environment, error wasn’t just embarrassing; it could be sinful, seditious, or fatal. The quote’s second turn tightens the vise: “And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.” Knowing something halfway is not safety. Mis-stated facts don’t merely fail to protect you; they recruit you into falsehood. The phrasing suggests a double indictment: sloppy thinking harms the public, and it corrupts the thinker.

The subtext is discipline. Fuller isn’t praising curiosity; he’s warning against carelessness - the kind that lets rumor pose as certainty, or conviction substitute for verification. It’s also an early diagnosis of what we’d now call narrative capture: if you don’t do the hard work of accuracy, the “facts” will be assembled for you by someone else, and you’ll wear their version like a sentence.