#facts

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#adding #always #chief #damn #end

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#education #facts #how #intellectual #learning

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#business #confirm #fact #facts #harmonize

What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#because #changed #changing #facts #how

There are no facts, only interpretations. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#interpretations #only

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#legends #material #moulded #recorded

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#bath #facts #fish #giving #life

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#back #before #current #evidence #facts

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life. ↗

— William Bernbach

#dead #facts #job #life #our

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#alternative #confront #conservation #facts #fuel