“Facts do not 'speak for themselves.' They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities.”— Thomas Sowell, amazon.com
“The world, we are told, was made especially for man—a presumption not supported by all the facts.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“We have a president who doesn’t care about the facts. That’s new and very dangerous. Shocking, I would say.”— Walter Mondale,
“[Trump] has an appalling record for using lies or near lies to draw outrageous conclusions and that’s what he did there. We can’t accept that. This nation has to be based on truth and facts. And our public officers have got to be measured against a standard of what’s necessary for a healthy America.”— Walter Mondale, minnpost.com
“Do you think politics is only about winning the argument? That whoever has the right fact at the right moment wins? Clinton had facts. Kennedy had facts, yeah. But Reagan? He couldn't have summoned a fact if his life depended on it.”— Richard Price, Theresa D'Agostino, Brandy Burre, imdb.com
“Oprah becomes the first African-American female billionaire. The former television host turned media mogul founded OWN cable network and has a 10% stake in Weight Watchers. She is currently America's highest-paid female celebrity, worth roughly $3 billion.”— Tanya Klich, forbes.com
“Angels are totally real. Tinkerbell has a hot ass. Wendigos exist. It's all true. Satan is blonde. True fact.”— Misha Collins, inspiringquotes.us
“My wife told me she's getting fed up of my boring facts. “I find them very interesting,” I said. “Well, who gives a flying fuck?” She said angrily. “Dragonflies,” I replied.”— zubindalal, reddit.com
“Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.”— Brigham Young, goodreads.com
“From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.”— Adam Savage, menshealth.com
“We must be careful to discriminate between our own incapacity to test truth and the necessary improbability of an event. It is plain that from our ignorance of the remote spheres of God's action we cannot judge of His works removed from our experience; but a fact is not necessarily doubtful because…”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.”— Justus von Liebig, amazon.com
“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.”— Robert James Waller, amazon.com
“We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things we don’t like.”— Bertrand Russell, youtube.com
“Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.”— Ivan Pavlov, faculty.frostburg.edu
“Albert Einstein was 16 years old when he first flirted with the idea of special relativity.”— Zat Rana, medium.com