Quotes about Fact

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or flattened out. The danger, especially of distortion, is particularly great in the case of orgonomy. We must be scientific, we cannot be political in these matters. And I personally declare that I will be the first to fight with all my strength, with whatever I've got against such a distortion of our principles.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and the judgment that vichyssoise is cold expresses the fact that vichyssoise is cold.

"As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the reality f myth, I chose myth...Myth is the truth of fact, not fact the truth of myth."

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.