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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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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

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

— Thomas Huxley

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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

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

— William Ralph Inge

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There are no facts, only interpretations. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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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. ↗

— Henry Adams

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