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.

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

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

If nothing ruptured, then that's really good news for the engineers who were trying to make it in fact so that it wouldn't.

I don't know why some countries do not want to understand the fact that the Iranian people do not tolerate force.

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.

To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.

America's culture is also defined by the fact that we are a religious people. We recognize our God not only in our Declaration of Independence, but even in our currency. And we are also unique in that we recognize that the family is the fundamental building block of American society.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

What makes local players reluctant to go global is partly the fact that there are no ports that are able to handle direct shipments. The country's exporters are therefore at the mercy of port operators in Singapore and Malaysia.