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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Facts

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Robert M. Hutchins

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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

The facts are on our side.

Karen Hughes

Facts

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Eric Hoffer

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I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.