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Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion. - Joseph Addison Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. - Edmund Burke But facts are chiels that winna ding, An downa be disputed. - Robert Burns To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. - John Burroughs There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact. - George Canning Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. - Thomas Carlyle I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. - Thomas Carlyle Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. - Albert Einstein Facts are stubborn things. - Jane (or Jean) Elliot No facts are to me sacred; none are profane. I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. - Justice Felix Frankfurter Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory. - Stephen Jay Gould From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. - Nathaniel Hawthorne Facts are counterrevolutionary. - Eric Hoffer In matters of fact, they say there is some credit to be given to the testimony of men, but not in matters of judgment. - Richard Hooker A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. - Thomas Henry Huxley In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. - Mary McCarthy Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. - Jawaharlal Nehru There are no eternal facts as there are no eternal truths. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. - Norman Vincent Peale Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts. - George Denison Prentice Facts are stupid things. - Ronald Reagan I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. - George Santayana When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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