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Facts

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
 Samuel Johnson
 Boswell's Life, 1775

There are no facts, only interpretations.
 Friedrich Nietzsche
 

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
 Baltasar Gracian
 Act of Wordly Wisdom, 1647

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
 T S Eliot
 The Rock, 1934

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
 Aldous Huxley
 Proper Studies, 1927

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck.
 Walter Reuther
 1954

See Also Propaganda Theory

References

History
  • Pheidippides' run from Marathon to Athens to carry the news of victory
  • Rothschild's series of bonfires to transmit report from Waterloo to London
  • Franklin's postal system
  • Gutenberg's moveable type
  • Marconi, Edison, pony express
  • Invention of radio, television
  • Internet, Google
  • Inca system of roads and messengers
  • Roman system of paved roads

    Arts & Science

  • Enigma, the code-breaking machine of WW2
  • Movies: Rear Window

    Literature

  • Charles Dickens: Mr. Gradgrind in Hard Times




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