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Facts Quotes - Page 27

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.

Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James”, p.1740, e-artnow

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

Edmund Husserl (1970). “The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy”, p.6, Northwestern University Press

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

"'Be creative and make money out of it': Dr Dre on headphones (not Detox)" by Kieran Yates, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2011.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1089, Open Road Media

Facts speak plainer than words

Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.6, Courier Corporation

In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.

Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.32, BookBaby

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.99, Vintage

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.256, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.