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- Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
- Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907
- We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- 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.
- Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
- I never guess. 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.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia
- Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.
- Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday, 2004
- Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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