Orts #699

Nothing is more uncertain, more contradictory, more unsatisfying, than the evidence of facts.
     — William Godwin (1756-1836), briefly husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, and father of Mary Shelley

. . . facts are a very inferior form of fiction.
     — Virginia Woolf, in How Should One Read a Book?
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
     -- Sophia Loren (1934-  )