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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. -- Maya Angelou
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. -- Maya Angelou
Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power. -- Ai Weiwei
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. -- Edward Albee
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. -- William Allen White
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction. -- Remy de Gourmont
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. -- Werner Herzog
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. -- Luther Burbank
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. -- Paul Harding
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this. -- Wen Jiabao
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics. -- Iain McGilchrist
You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact. -- Andy Serkis
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. -- Charles Darwin
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. -- David Friedrich Strauss
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact. -- Ernest Renan
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. -- Neil Gaiman
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. -- Lucian Freud
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. -- Henry Mayhew
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. -- Gottfried Leibniz
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind. -- Henry Mayhew
Seek truth from facts. -- Deng Xiaoping
Truth is but approved facts. -- Frances Wright
Facts can obscure the truth. -- Maya Angelou
Facts do not constitute truth, -- Werner Herzog
Facts are the enemy of truth. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Facts are the enemy of truth. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Truth is independent of facts always. -- Oscar Wilde
Tell the truth and not the facts. -- Maya Angelou
Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts. -- Bill Maher
Don't let the facts interfere with the truth. -- Farley Mowat
Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth. -- Stephen Colbert
The truth is more important than the facts. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried. -- Toba Beta
It takes three facts to make a truth. -- Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Facts are many, but the truth is one. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth. -- Richard Selzer
Truth in science is always determined from observational facts. -- David Douglass
Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts. -- Neville Goddard
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge
The sum of a million facts is not the truth. -- William Manchester
but even the facts do not always tell the truth -- Paul Auster
History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail. -- Charles Augustus Briggs
You can't let facts get in the way of the truth. -- Joe Hill
Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth. -- Peter Sellers
Believe the truth of God's Word over the facts of your circumstances. -- Christine Caine
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. -- William Faulkner
I never let the facts get in the way of the truth! -- Farley Mowat
THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society -- Abhishek Shukla
I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of. -- Stephen Colbert
I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts. -- Katherine Applegate
There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated. -- Don Henley
Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere -- Patrick Rothfuss
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. -- Tom Stoppard
I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading. -- Corra May Harris
The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts. -- Pete Townshend
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts -- Tom Stoppard
Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up. -- Farley Mowat
From principles is derived probability but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts -- Tom Stoppard
There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him. -- Alix Ohlin
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination. -- Werner Herzog
Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth. -- Jerry Spinelli
Those are the facts but not the truth, which does not even speak the same language. -- Sonja Livingston
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. -- Andy Rooney
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. -- Mary Stewart
When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth. -- Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer. -- Gao Xingjian
Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings. -- Anthony Liccione
I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth. -- Pam Houston
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth? -- Lloyd Alexander
One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts. -- Quentin R. Bufogle
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. -- Aristotle
[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. -- Julian Barnes
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. -- William Faulkner
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. -- Oscar Wilde
There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts. -- Benedict of Nursia
Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts. -- Yann Martel
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. -- Pierre Trudeau
I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it. -- Steven Soderbergh
I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in. -- Edward St Aubyn
The stupendous truth of the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as a Heavenly Father, became established facts in Mormon Theology. -- Milton R. Hunter
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. -- John McGahern
With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth. -- S.A. Tawks
Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives. -- Deanna Raybourn
It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth. -- James Cameron
At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever. -- Doris Lessing
The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis. -- Sergei Lavrov
The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts. -- William Shawn
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts. -- John Green
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts. -- Louis Pasteur
There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it. -- Trevor Noah
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made. -- Shelby Foote
Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth. -- John Mason Brown
I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out. -- Gerald Massey
I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth -- Richard M. Nixon
Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict. -- Louis de Broglie
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.' -- Stephen Colbert
If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing. -- Bob Kane
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy. -- Carl Sagan
The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas. -- A. A. Gill
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts. -- Henry Adams
We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed. -- Rabindranath Tagore

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