To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
John Burroughs

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
Aleister Crowley

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Robert Peel

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Mortimer Adler

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
John Updike

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
Friedrich August von Hayek

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
Friedrich August von Hayek

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

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard Baruch

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
Bernard Baruch

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

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
Sonia Sotomayor

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.
Sonia Sotomayor

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
Neil Gaiman

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

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