Traditions are not killed by facts.
There are no eternal facts, as there are likewise no absolute truths.[Es giebt keine ewigen Thatsachen: sowie es keine absoluten Wahrheiten giebt.]
Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact.
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.
It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
You dont know very much about women, do you? Women aren’t interested in poets’ dreams. They are interested in facts. It doesn’t even matter whether the facts are true or not, as long as they match the other facts without leaving a rough seam. [Eula Varner Snopes to Gavin Stevens]
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
These are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
There is always a danger of accepting facts as proved which are really nothing of the kind.
