#facts

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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Facts are counterrevolutionary. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#decide #even #facts #necessary #problem

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

— William Ralph Inge

#education #facts #knowledge #values

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ↗