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.
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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!
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.
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
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