#facts

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cost #cover #divorced #economics #economists

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. ↗

— Francis Wright

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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention. ↗

— Francis Wright

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The truth is more important than the facts. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject. ↗

— Jon Wynne-Tyson

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Seek truth from facts. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#seek #truth

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ↗