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- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts.
- Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
- Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- 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.
- 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.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
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