#facts

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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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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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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It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem. ↗

— Dillon Anderson

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Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

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If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak. ↗

— Jaime Herrera Buetler

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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. ↗