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.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

I liked the fact that Lois was one person with Clark and another with Superman. I think that, as women, we do that a lot when we fall in love.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.