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There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.

There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the brilliant, prickly, and iconoclastic late senator from New York. Apparently, Moynihan was in a heated argument with one of his colleagues over an issue, and the other senator, sensing he was on the losing side of the argument, blurted out: 'Well, you may disagree with me, Pat, I'm entitled to my own opinion." To which Moynihan frostily replied, "You are entitled to you own opinion, but you are not entitled to you own facts.

There: see? Done with the facts already. The facts are easy to say; I say them all the time. This isn't about them. This is about whatever is cut from the frame of narrative. The fat remnants, broken bones, gristle, untender bits.

There's no destiny; you just decide where you end.

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world.

The source of man is in man,and when a man dies,millions of men die in him.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

The strong belief can make things out of imagination. But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.

The truth, when finally revealed, is sticky like wet dough. The majority of it stays in place as one handles it, but pieces break off and adhere, making certain facts seem larger, more portentous, than others.

The truths of religion are unprovable; the facts of science are unproved.

The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities—the truth isn’t.

This is why introductions are important--because in the beginning, despite the fact that we already believe we know what it means, there's a chance that over time the definition will change from one thing to another.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.

The world is not a great place because racist people come with a race type of agenda, and it don't make the world great, it makes it worst than ever.

They may not like what you have to say, but it is better to express how you feel.

... those selling abortion don't want them to have [the facts]," Virginia said heatedly. "Besides the Supreme Court doesn't agree with you. They judges seem to think we poor women would fall apart if we knew the facts, so they decided women don't have the right to know the full truth." She shook her head. "They've made it legal to withhold vital information, even when a woman requests it, for heaven's sake!

Too often truth is doubted, while the error is believed.

Time changes, that's why our lives change.

Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the world is attuned to its wonderful message of the creative evolution of man, except the ear of William Jennings Bryan; he alone remains stone-deaf, he alone by his own resounding voice drowns the eternal speech of nature.

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely without illusion, to start from facts and not from beliefs and ideals. There is no learning if thought originates from conclusions. Merely to acquire information of knowledge is to not to learn. Learning implies the love of understanding and the love of doing a thing for itself. Learning is possible only when there is no coercion through influence, thought attachment or threat, through persuasive encouragement or subtle forms of reward. Most people think that learning is encouraged through comparison, whereas the contrary is the fact. Comparison brings about frustration and merely encourages envy, which is called competition. Like other forms of persuasion, comparison prevents learning and breeds fear.

To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery.

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

Travel is the Experience of life

True love is wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone you would sometimes also like to strangle.

Truth is always a factual right... It is not always an absolute right...

Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are.

Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact... always supersedes belief.

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.

Truth is what you see. Opinions are what you hear. Facts are what you know. Reality is what you experience.

Turns out all it takes to bring enemies to peace is a bigger enemy.

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art

We always need a motivation, in order for us to meet our full potential at work.

We born alone,we all die alone.

We have no authoritative figure, no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow whom we all listen to and trust to sort out contradictory claims. Instead, the media is splintered into a thousand fragments, each with its own version of reality, each claiming the loyalty of a splintered nation.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few.

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.

We —I mean to say we mammals — who in general do not have problems about obtaining water, have learned to wedge it into the urea molecule, which is soluble in water, and as urea we free ourselves of it; other animals, for whom water is precious (or it was for their distant progenitors), have made the ingenious invention of packaging their nitrogen in the form of uric acid, which is insoluble in water, and of eliminating it as a solid, with no necessity of having recourse to water as a vehicle. In an analogous fashion one thinks today of eliminating urban garbage by pressing it into blocks, which can be carried to the dumps or buried inexpensively.

We must respect that silence and make our decisions and judgments based upon science and fact and simple old-fashioned common sense - a commodity absent for too long from those in governmental elevatia, where its employ would do us all much good.

We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

We might not be able to know what reality is about, but we can’t but be aware of the explicitness of facts. To get a better grip on the intricate nature of the truth and its ambiguity, we have got to scrutinize facts and find out about their codes. But, yet, we can’t ignore that reality is a very intriguing place, since facts may be construed, receive variant contexts and create alternate outcomes, which, in turn, might spark new realities, over again. ("Imbroglio" )

Whatever happens right now, it has to happen.

We should resume our language to science and leave the rest to silence

We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!

We want to be told stories, and there is nothing wrong with that—except that we should check more thoroughly whether the story provides consequential distortions of reality. Could it be that fiction reveals truth while nonfiction is a harbor for the liar? Could it be that fables and stories are closer to the truth than is the thoroughly fact-checked ABC News? Just consider that the newspapers try to get impeccable facts, but weave them into a narrative in such a way as to convey the impression of causality (and knowledge). There are factcheckers, not intellect-checkers.

Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.