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The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
-Danish proverb
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Carelessness is worse than a thieve.
-Scottish Proverb
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Measure three times before you cut once.
-Proverb
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-John Adams
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Twenty children can never play together for twenty years
-Michael Adelowo
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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion
-Norman Angell
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
-Francis Bacon
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If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
-Bernard Baruch
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Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
-Augusto Roa Bastos
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
-Walter Benjamin
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Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
-James Gordon Bennett
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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
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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.
-Sharon Anthony Bower
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Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
-Fogg Brackell
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Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.
-Ray Bradbury
From the foreward to Mars and the Mind of Man
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
-Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
-Thomas Carlyle
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I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
-Dale Carnegie
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The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
-Richard Clark
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Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.
-Philip Delaney
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Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!
-Charles Dickens
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Books about Facts
