Quote by Thomas Carlyle
What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt

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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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. – Thomas Carlyle

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

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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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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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Facts cant be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. Ive already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets whats behind them. – Augusto Roa Bastos

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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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