Wednesday, December 29, 2010

A Few Quotes On Facts (or some such nonsense)

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

The truth is more important than the facts
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television
- Sophia Loren

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires
- Bertrand Russell

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation
- Adam Smith

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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