One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Thomas Sowell

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Thomas Sowell

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Thomas Fuller

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
Sophia Loren

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Gustave Flaubert

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White