Block, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, delete, edit, rollback
7,537
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 13:
Line 13: + − + + + + + − "First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure."—Mark Twain + + − "We all know that facts have a liberal bias."—Stephen Colbert
no edit summary
For example, it is an ''opinion'' that the [[homosexual agenda]] is not harmful, while it is a fact that the average gay man has a life expectancy far less than that of a straight man.
For example, it is an ''opinion'' that the [[homosexual agenda]] is not harmful, while it is a fact that the average gay man has a life expectancy far less than that of a straight man.
==Quotes About Facts==
==Quotes About Facts==
John Adams wrote: "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." <ref>John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770 The Quotations Page</ref>
John Adams wrote: "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." <ref>John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770 The Quotations Page</ref>
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."—Oscar Wilde
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."—[[Oscar Wilde]]
"First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure."—[[Mark Twain]]
"We all know that facts have a liberal bias."—[[Stephen Colbert]]
== See also ==
* [[Proven fact]]
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Pasley, Jeff. "Department of Not Giving John Adams Too Much Credit" in ''Common-Place (July 2009) [http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1593 online]; shows the slogan was very widely used in the 18th century.
* Pasley, Jeff. "Department of Not Giving John Adams Too Much Credit" in ''Common-Place (July 2009) [http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1593 online]; shows the slogan was very widely used in the 18th century.