#facts

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. ↗

— Max Eastman

#brute #enemy #face #facts #hope

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#apart #argument #came #case #certainly

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen. ↗

— Norm Coleman

#backwards #cloud #decisions #dishonest #endless

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. ↗

— George Combe

#curious #facts #goodness #illustration #mere

Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#answered #better #better man #beyond #facts

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#attention #bubbling #close #close attention #facts

We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#be patient #because #being #cause #change

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear. ↗

— Barney Frank

#activists #concerned #facts #get #give

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#believe #cure #death #dreams #experience

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#argue #ever #facts #fit #here