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Nothing in
education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it
accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-- Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian
Facts are
stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our
inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot
alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams
1735-1826, Second President
of the USA
It is not the
facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions
about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make
them right by discussion
-- Norman Angell
1872-1967, British Writer,
Pacifist
Men on their
side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions
by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
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