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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."
"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."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
Explore more quotes by John H. Speke
"I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners."
"So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig."
"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."
"I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation."
"Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death."
"Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made."
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