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 | Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 8 likes |
 | Facts replaced understanding; and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don’t conform to our preconceptions. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 7 likes |
 | Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
| Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 5 likes |
 | Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs. — Ricky Gervais, 1961-, British comedian & screenwriter 4 likes |
 | There are no facts, only interpretations. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | Fear fades when facts are faced. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 4 likes |
 | Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. — Philip Roth, 1933-2018, American writer 3 likes |
 | It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 3 likes |
 | The world is the totality of facts, not things. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 3 likes |
 | Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say. — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 2 likes |
 | Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 2 likes |
 | Once the facts are clear, the decisions jump out at you. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
 | My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 2 likes |
 | All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called “Facts”. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher 2 likes |
| There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 2 likes |
 | The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 2 likes |
 | Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvellous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time. — Lucretius, 98-55 BC, Roman poet 2 likes |
 | Philosophy is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Politeness does not interfere with facts, politeness is just another fact. |
 | It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance. |
 | I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. |
 | Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction. |
 | An accumulation of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. |
 | We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts. |
 | Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
 | Don’t divide the world into “them” and “us”. Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours. |
 | The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact. |
| People forget facts, but they remember stories. |
 | Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation – at least in the foreign policy world – depend on context and relevance. |
 | The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true. |
 | For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. |
 | Facts always are sensational. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 |
 | No philosopher allows his opinions to be swayed by facts—he would be kicked out of his guild. Theologians, the lot of them. |
 | There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician |
 | Everything happens through ideas, they produce facts, which serve them only as an envelope. — François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician |
| Facts do not “speak for themselves.” They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities. |
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