#facts

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Facts are counterrevolutionary. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

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