Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Attitudes are more important than facts.
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Ignoring facts does not make them go away.