“The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.”

“A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.”

Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher

“Truth is independent of facts always.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?”

Andrzej Sapkowski book Sword of Destiny

“The truth is that once you discover something is false you lose interest in it. Man no longer treasures what he thought was genuine once he discovers it is false. In this way truth is its own solution. Self-knowledge is the discovery of the false. You do not have to find what is true: when the false is discarded truth is there. It always was. Just keep observing the fact and the change will come automatically and will he lasting.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

“Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“The great error of traditional proofs of the existence of god is that they try to take a symbolic truth for a literal truth, a truth of fact, and then try to prove that it is a fact.”

Walter Terence Stace (1886–1967) British civil servant, educator and philosopher.