"A concept is stronger than a fact."

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American Writer

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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

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"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

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"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

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"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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"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

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

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply."

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"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind."

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"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."

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"Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized."

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"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter."

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"Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil."

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"A concept is stronger than a fact."

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"In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans."

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"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."

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