#facts

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ↗

— Celia Green

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Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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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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These are facts, these are not imaginary things. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

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Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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