Abstract Quote by Stuart Franklin

When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other;…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering…

— Louis de Broglie

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory,…

— Oliver Heaviside

In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe,…

— Auguste Comte

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

— Thomas Sowell

Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.

— Cheris Kramarae

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

— Justus von Liebig

“Fact is just fiction with different storytellers”

— Abby Slovin

“Contrary opinions are one thing, contrary facts are another.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

A concept is stronger than a fact.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman