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Facts Quotes - Page 15

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

Edward Hallett Carr (1962). “What Is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

Romain Gary (1968). “The Dance of Genghis Cohn”, New American Library of Canada

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

Madeleine L'Engle's acceptance speech on receiving the Margaret Edwards Award (the American Library Association's Lifetime Achievement Award For Writing in the Field of Young Adult Literature) at the American Library Association's annual conference in Washington, D.C., gos.sbc.edu. June 27, 1998.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.33, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.12, Pan Macmillan