
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
Source: Three Men in a Boat (1889), Ch. 10.
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
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 21
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“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”