"If the facts don't fit the theory,..." - Quote by Unknown
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
More on Truth
“[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.”
“Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.”
“However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.”
More on Facts
“Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.”
“There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.”
“It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.”