Fact Quotes

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

America is, in fact, a very good place to build cars.

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.

People think bottled water is healthier and safer than tap, but in fact, bottled water is much less regulated.

True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

That's the best I've ever seen Jake play. He had a guardian angel helping him tonight. In fact, the whole team was playing with a cause. Everybody wanted to win for Jake, and everything seemed to click.

The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

The fact is that unless you experience something for yourself it does not exist for you.

Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.

The problem that has no name - which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities - is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.