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“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, History
“The world is the totality of facts, not of things.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“There was neither good nor bad there. There were just facts. It was life.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies, and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.” John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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