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- There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future
- There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
- Farley Mowat
- It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case."
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Facts are stupid things.
- Ronald Reagan '88, a slight misquote of John Adams, "Facts are stubborn things."
- I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news-- With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. - Gilbert & Sullivan, "The Pirates of Penzance"
- To some lawyers all facts are created equal.
- Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965)
- Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.
- Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
- How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table.
- Unknown
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