Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
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Unknown
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Tacitus
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
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John H. Alexander
More Quotes By Jawaharlal Nehru
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people.. Who indeed could afford to ignore science...
Our lives are encumbered with the dead wood of this past; all that is dead and has served its purpose has to go. But that does not mean a break with, or a forgetting of, the vital and life-giving in that past. We can never...
I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt...
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
