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Charlotte P Gillman
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| "A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea
attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes." | |
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Claude Bernard
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| "A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words." | |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "But facts are facts and flinch not." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "Comment is free but facts are sacred." | |
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Charles Prestwich Scott
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| "Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what
you are." | |
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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
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| "Facts are counterrevolutionary." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "Facts are the enemy of truth." | |
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Don Quixote
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| "Facts are ventriloquists" dummies. Sitting on a wise man"s knee they
may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing, or talk
nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the
back." | |
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Sir Harold Bowden
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| "Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things
that are not at hand." | |
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
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| "Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get "em, get
"em right, or they will get you wrong." | |
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Millard Fuller
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| "I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I
feel it, and am in agony." | |
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Gaius Valerius Catullus
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| "I"m not sure I want popular opinion on my side ? I"ve noticed those
with the most opinions often have the fewest facts." | |
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Bethania McKenstry
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| "If the facts don"t fit the theory, change the facts." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their
simplification." | |
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Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
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| "Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science
made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house And a collection of
facts is not necessarily science." | |
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Henri Poincare
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| "The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the
stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion." | |
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Unknown
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| "The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his
jests, and to his imagination for his facts." | |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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| "There are no facts, only interpretations." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and
three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no
aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason,
generalize, using the labors of fact collectors as well as their own.
Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict; their best illumination comes
from above, through the skylight." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact." | |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such
wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of
fact." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by
the facts." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of
facts." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are
known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true
ones, if not a little more effective." | |
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Walter Lippmann
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| "Trust your hunches. They"re usually based on facts filed away just
below the conscious level." | |
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Dr. Joyce Brothers
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| "We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are." | |
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Harry S. Truman
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