Quotes about facts


There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. ( Maya Angelou)

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end. (Henry Kissinger )

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. ( Thomas More)

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. ( Edmund Burke)

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. (Hippocrates)

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.( Aldous Huxley )

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. (Galileo Galilei)

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ( Charles Darwin)


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