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Linus Pauling: “Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Thomas Mann: “It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
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Solomon Short: “You are not entitled to an opinion. An opinion is what you have when you don't have any facts. When you have the facts, you don't need an opinion.
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Norman Cousins: “The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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Henri Poincare: “Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
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Joyce Brothers: “Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
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Robert Fulghum: “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan: “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
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Rachel Carson: “If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
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Dorothy Thompson: “It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
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William James: “Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
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Theodore Parker: “Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.
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Henry Brooks Adams: “Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Sir William Bragg: “The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
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Martin Fischer: “Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
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Thomas H. Huxley: “Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
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George Eliot: “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
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William Ralph Inge: “The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
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