#facts

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#die #beauty

I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives. ↗

— Seymour Simon

#exploring #facts #kids #teaching #change

The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense, he is closer to the philistine; the baker whose chief concern is to bake good bread; the peasant, who works his plow while armies march across his fields. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#anarchy #ernst-jünger #facts-and-ideas #politics #dreams

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#details #detection #facts #importance #sherlock-holmes

All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom #justice #freedom

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#bring #directly #facts #most #safest

There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#ideas #intelligence #intelligence

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. ↗

— Stacy Schiff

#facts-and-ideas #history #myth #life

The facts of life are very stubborn things. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#life #stubborn #things #very

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#facts #fame #knowing #love #poverty