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A concept is
stronger than a fact.
-- Charlotte P. Gillman
1860-1935, American Feminist
and Writer
The facts:
nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to
everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.
-- Edmond and Jules De
Goncourt
1822-1896, French Writers
General
principles are not the less true or important because from
their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like
the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither
see nor feel it.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
Facts are
counterrevolutionary.
-- Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author,
Philosopher
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All generous
minds have a horror of what are commonly called ''facts.''
They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who
does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned
fact or two that they lead after them into decent company
like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every
ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or
pleasant fancy? I allow no ''facts'' at this table.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
Facts don't
cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author
Facts are
ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they
may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say
nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
-- Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author
A world of
facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist,
Educator
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