#facts

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

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These are facts, these are not imaginary things. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

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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

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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered. ↗

— Marvin Bower

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Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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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

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We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new. ↗

— George Combe

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