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“The Register of Knowledge Of Fact is called History.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.” Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact;” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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Thomas Hobbes (2)
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Mahatma Gandhi (1)
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Leviathan (2)
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century (2)
The Story of my Experiments with Truth (1)
The Varieties of Religious Experience (1)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1)
The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1)