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• Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

  Henry Adams

  Witty, Science, Political Will

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 24 (1907)

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• A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

  Bliss Carman

  Agreement, Investigation, Mark

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• Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

  Joyce Brothers

  Life, Motivational, Trust

  "Words of Wisdom : More Good Advice" edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, (p. 199), 1990.

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• The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

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• Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Opinion

  "Hayden Panettiere: I Struggled With Body Dysmorphia as a Teen" by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Faith, Science, Naivety

  Theodosius Dobzhansky (1962). “Mankind Evolving: The Evolustion of the Human Species”

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• History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Character, Dust

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.

  Michio Kaku

  Science, Going For It, Physics

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Mar 02, 2010

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• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teaching, Ignorance

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

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• I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Reality, Devil

  Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 29, 1836

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• I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Peace, Creativity, Thinking

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

  William James

  Use, Belief, Theory

  "The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy". Book by William James, 1897.

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• A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Science, Fairy Stories, Deny

  Concept of Mind (1949) introduction

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• Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Different, Persons, Stills

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• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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• The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

  Walter Benjamin

  Power, Life Is, Construction

  Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

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• I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

  Lee Iacocca

  Regret, Business, Crazy

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• Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, Expression, Being Sad

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• The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

  Mark Twain

  Recovery, Animal, Intelligent

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.264, Univ of California Press

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• Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Needs, Bleeding, Ends

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• I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

  Bliss Carman

  Tyrants, Wish, World

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• What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.308, Library of Alexandria

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• Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

  Charles Dickens

  Hard Times, Want, Statistics

  Hard Times bk. 1, ch. 1 (1854)

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• The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

  Richard A. Clarke

  Media, Achievement, Causes

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• I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Science, Machines

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