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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Politicians and Politics
Henry Brooks Adams

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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Opinions
Bernard M. Baruch

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
Facts
Walter Benjamin

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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Education
Alec Bourne

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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.
Facts
Sharon Anthony Bower

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Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
Facts
Fogg Brackell

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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
Sex
Bertolt Brecht

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Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Intuition
Dr. Joyce Brothers

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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Praise
Jean De La Bruyere

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History is but a confused heap of facts.
History and Historians
Lord Chesterfield

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
Reality
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
Imagination
Charles Horton Cooley

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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
Finley Peter Dunne

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Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.
Facts
Frederick Hudson Ecker

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Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
Accuracy
Tryon Edwards

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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Facts
Albert Einstein

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
Life and Living
T. S. Eliot

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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Facts
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
Facts
William Faulkner

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Knowledge
Martin H. Fischer

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
Marriage
Richard Ford

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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Facts
Felix Frankfurter

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
Wisdom
Frank Garbutt

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That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
Advertising
Samuel Goldwyn

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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Theory
Edith Hamilton

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun