#facts

What's done cannot be undone. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#faits-accomplis #truth #fact

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#knowledge #hilarious

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#blinded #compassion #facts #false-interruptations #guessing

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.' ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#facts #going #i #ignorant #keep

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#even #facts #failed #field #focused

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#collects #combination #combines #experimentation #facts

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#civil #concerns #constitutional #constitutional rights #facts

Facts? What are facts? I only know imagination! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#facts #imagination #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #inspire

The strong belief can make things out of imagination. But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales. ↗

— Toba Beta

#facts #fairy-tales #imagination #imagination

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. ↗

— Stacy Schiff

#facts-and-ideas #history #myth #life