"Facts are counterrevolutionary."

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Fact, Opinion

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Fact, Man

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Fact, Interest

"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

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"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Fact, Parents, Wishing, Wrong

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Fact, Facts

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

Fact, Infinite, Space

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Fact, Wishes

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Fact, Facts, Theories

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

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"People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility."

Observation

"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time."

Time

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

People

"Anger is the prelude to courage."

Courage

"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."

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"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

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"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."

"Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many."

"Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action."

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

"People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility."

"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time."

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

"Anger is the prelude to courage."

"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."

"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."