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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
Wisdom
Frank Garbutt

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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
Surprises
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
Facts
Jean Genet

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A concept is stronger than a fact.
Facts
Charlotte P. Gillman

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.
Mistakes
Nikki Giovanni

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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Secrets
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Fools and Foolishness
Oliver Goldsmith

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That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
Advertising
Samuel Goldwyn

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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Theory
Edith Hamilton

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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
Suicide
Vaclav Havel

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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Accuracy
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Poverty and The Poor
Don Herold

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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Science and Scientists
Thomas Hobbes

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Facts are counterrevolutionary.
Facts
Eric Hoffer

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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
Beauty
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Dissatisfaction
Doug Horton

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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
Theory
Edgar Watson Howe

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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
Theory
Edgar Watson Howe

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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Argument
Edgar Watson Howe

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Law and Lawyers
Charles Evans Hughes

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Planning
Victor Hugo

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INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
Innovation
Watts Humprey

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Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
Facts
Aldous Huxley

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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Facts
Thomas H. Huxley

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Science and Scientists
Thomas H. Huxley

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun