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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
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