"The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth."

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Source : David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American Presidents E-Book Box Set: John Adams, Mornings on Horseback, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.1749, Simon and Schuster

David McCullough

#Knowledge Quotes #Missing Quotes #Facts Quotes

“We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear potential. We will be friends of all, satellites of none.”

Source : Errol Walton Barrow (1987). “Speeches by Errol Barrow”, Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited
“Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.”
“Homoeopathic treatment is my first choice not only for me but also for my family. Homoeopathy should be developed as full- fledged alternative system of medicine. More research and more development are essential to make Homoeopathy more popular and useful Homoeopath treats their patients in more compassionate way. Homoeopathy is second largest system of medicine being practiced in India.”
“If youâ€™re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
“My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.”
“In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.”
“Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2002). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
“Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)”

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