#facts

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. ↗

— George Orwell

#coincides #facts #foresee #future #grossly

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. ↗

— George Santayana

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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true. ↗

— Carl Rogers

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

— Mark Twain

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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. ↗