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Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

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

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.