Thomas Carlyle Quote

I grow to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

In: Joseph Slater (ed.), The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 29, 1836 (pp. 146-147)

I grow to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then...

I grow to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then...

I grow to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then...

I grow to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then...