Bertrand Russell on Truth vs. Fact

So much wisdom for modern life in philosopher Bertrand Russell’s 1926 meditation on education and the good life:

It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit.

Read more here, then see legendary anthropologist Margaret Mead on [the difference between fact and poetic truth][3].

[3]: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/16/margaret-mead-santa-claus-myth-deception/