Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing to imagine your facts is another.
Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts but men of brains who will not face them.
As for gun control advocates I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
When you think of how history is revealed we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.