Errors Quote by Frances Wright

We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

— Eglantyne Jebb

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of…

— John Adams

“In case you haven't noticed, the word has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together the truth based on…

— Nathan Hill

We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

— Peter J. Carroll

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

— Virginia Woolf

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

— Jessamyn West

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

— William James

“our difficulty in accurately recognizing random arrangements of events can lead us to believe things that are not true—to believe something is systematic, ordered,…

— Thomas Gilovich

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy…

— Cynthia Ozick

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different…

— Karl A. Menninger

“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue; and then, when we are finally proved…

— George Orwell

“What’s true? What’s false? In case you haven’t noticed, the world has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together…

— Nathan Hill