Facts Quote by Tony Abbott

Ignorance is the mother of presumption

— Marie de Gournay

The meaning of the presupposition is the method of verification… we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which…

— Moritz Schlick

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one…

— Edward Teller

“A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.

— Thomas Paine

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a…

— Henry Mayhew

“I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much indetermined and unpredictable, to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

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

— Justus von Liebig

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

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

— Tom Spanbauer

A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand…

— Chauncey Wright

“If any one asks: ‘Why should I accept the results of valid arguments based on true premisses?’ we can only answer by appealing to…

— Bertrand Russell