Alain-René Lesage book Gil Blas
Book X, ch. 1. Earlier written by Elliot, Essay on Field Husbandry, p. 35 (1747). Translated by Tobias George Smollett, Translation of Gil Blas, Book x, Chapter 1.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
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Anthony Wayne (1745–1796) Continental Army general
Wayne, in a 1 May 1794 letter to the contractors who had failed to properly provision the Legion of the United States.
Attributed
Source: [Sword, Wiley, President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790-1795, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1985, 0-8061-2488-1, 265]
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) 18th-century poet and author from Scotland
Translation of Gil Blas (1749), Book X, Chap. 1.
Also used by Bernard Mandeville in An Enquiry Into the Origin of Honour (1732), p. 162, and by Jared Elliot in Essay on Field Husbandry (1747), p. 35.
“and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.”
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Source: The Master and Margarita
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
1770s, Boston Massacre trial (1770)
Variant: Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Source: The Portable John Adams
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Mao, 1967, as quoted by Jing Huang in The Role of Government Propaganda in the Educational System during the Cultural Revolution in China http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Cultural-Revolution-in-China-paper.pdf.
“Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.”
Ian Hacking (1936) Canadian philosopher
Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 12, Political Arithmetic, p. 102.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Plato; or, The Philosopher
1850s, Representative Men (1850)