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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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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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

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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

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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings. – Sharon Anthony Bower

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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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