Acceptance of Facts Quotes

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Society sometimes discovers facts that society has a hard time getting used to.

Wishful thinking is no substitute for reality.

We can't assume what we don't believe.

People take reality for granted.

It is fortunate when disputed theories can be decided by undisputed facts.

People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it. Thus from the moment that technics, the State, or production, are facts, we must worship them as facts, and we must try to adapt ourselves to them. This is the very heart of modern religion, the religion of the established fact, the religion on which depend the lesser religions of the dollar, race, or the proletariat, which are only expressions of the great modern divinity, the Moloch of fact.

I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.

I am an honest person, and that is why I can admit historical facts and I will never try to contradict them.