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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-- Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams
1735-1826, Second President of the USA
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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion
-- Norman Angell
1872-1967, British Writer, Pacifist
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
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If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
-- Bernard M. Baruch
1870-1965, American Financier
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Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
-- Augusto Roa Bastos
1917-, Paraguayan Novelist
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
-- Walter Benjamin
1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher
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Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
-- James Gordon Bennett
1795-1872, British-born American Journalist
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