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21 " There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. "
― Maya Angelou
22 " Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn't you. That isn't you at all. "
― Leila Sales , This Song Will Save Your Life
23 " The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. "
24 " Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. "
― Shannon L. Alder
25 " Give me the facts and I will determine my own truths. "
26 " News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried. "
― Toba Beta , My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
27 " After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of. "
― Alice Sebold , Lucky
28 " And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions. "
― Sándor Márai , Embers
29 " However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end. "
― , Numbers (Numbers, #1)
30 " It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual's experiential truths - the extreme of the former is left feeling in the dark whereas the latter is caught blinded by the light. By proper scientific method, it is intellectually dishonest for me to declare the existence of God with utmost certainty, but to my individual spirit, I would be intellectually dishonest to deny the existence of God even for a second. This leaves the best of both worlds, as the believer is called to be able to give reasons for his faith, a deviation from mere fantasy. "
― Criss Jami , Killosophy
31 " Comments are free but facts are sacred. "
― C.P. Scott
32 " 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. "
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
33 " I don't believe that aliens exist,but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief. "
― Toba Beta , Master of Stupidity
34 " but even the facts do not always tell the truth "
― Paul Auster
35 " This is the reason why atheists protest the “God” gene and religious will hate andprotest religion as a virus. They were blindfolded at an early age, and their psychological issues werethe blindfold. The facts are often used as weapons rather than information to convey truth. "
― Leviak B. Kelly , Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
36 " Truth is that we all need facts we cannot continue to eat only the food that is given to us. Sometimes we have to feed ourselves otherwise we set our self up for dependency on the wrong nutrition without realizing that we were being poisoned the whole time. "
37 " Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable. "
― John Alexander
38 " History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted. "
― Toba Beta
39 " Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her. "
― Daniel Alarcón
40 " I was well aware how famously or infamously secretive these old institutions can be, no more than ourselves, a mixture of worry, lost power, perhaps even concern. That the truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards into the shadows, and sometimes into the various little hells we make for each other. "
― Sebastian Barry , The Secret Scripture (McNulty Family)