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A fact in
itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached
to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
-- Claude Bernard
1813-1878, French
Physiologist
People can
refute your facts, but never your feelings.
-- Sharon Anthony Bower
American Author
Facts in
books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them
in men's heads.
-- Fogg Brackell
It is the
nature of all greatness not to be exact.
-- Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political
Writer, Statesman
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What are your
historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou
know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou
namest Facts?
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
Conclusive
facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head
that already understands and knows.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
I grow daily
to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A
fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence
printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
I deal with
the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious --
because the obvious is what people need to be told.
-- Dale Carnegie
1888-1955, American Author,
Trainer
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