To hell with facts! We need stories!
Ken Kesey

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
William Bernbach

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

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
Carl Rogers

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

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.
Marlo Thomas

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
Talcott Parsons

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
Talcott Parsons

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
Talcott Parsons

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
Talcott Parsons

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
Talcott Parsons

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
Malcolm Forbes

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.
Martin Kippenberger

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Attitudes are more important than facts.
George MacDonald