"Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding."

-- Mortimer Adler

#Understanding Quotes #Facts Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want.”

Source : "Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader" by Ronald Smelser, (p. 24), 1988.
“Principle I:;: Legal rights are presumptive rights.”
“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
“My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.”
“You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.”

Source : Jerry Falwell (1981). “Keys to daily living”
“Geography is the study of earth as the home of people”
“Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.”
“If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. â€˜Cause there ainâ€™t no time; world donâ€™t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.”

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