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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 10-31-2006
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
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Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts.
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Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts.
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Harper Lee (1926 - )
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.
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William C. Redfield, Address at Case School, Cleveland, Ohio, May 27, 1915
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
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Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918), The Education of Henry Adams, 1906
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
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Felix Cohen
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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John Adams (1735 - 1826)
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