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Quotes About Fact

Dessa correta aplicação da lei da causalidade segue-se que o menor dos fatos pressupõe o inconcebível universo e, inversamente, que o universo necessita do menor dos fatos.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
One problem with Yahweh, as they used to say in the old Christian Gnostic texts, is that he forgot he was a metaphor. He thought he was a fact. And when he said, "I am God," a voice was heard to say, "You are mistaken, Samael." "Samael" means "blind god": blind to the infinite Light of which he is a local historical manifestation. This is known as the blasphemy of Jehovah—that he thought he was God.
~ Joseph Campbell
It was the very moment when I thought, At last, she is going to stay, but in fact it was her good-bye.
~ Abraham Verghese
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake,heavy with useless experience, richwith suspicion, rumor, fantasy,crumbling to pieces under the knife-edgeof mere fact.
~ Adrienne Rich
The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team.
~ Jake Tapper
I love pears. Most definitely - it's a fact.
~ Rick Ross
The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.
~ Jim Cantalupo
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
And, I often think, the truth isn't good or bad, it's just the truth.
~ Polly Horvath
To make a distinction between simple and professional work in a new society would result in the revolution sanctioning and recognizing as a principle a brutal fact we submit to nowadays, but that we nevertheless find unjust.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
The illuminations of research would remain disjointed, and even fail to reckon the simple fact that life as it persisted in the seven continents of this planet has been a continuum. –P.J. Cherian
~ R. Balakrishnan
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
We were seeking an answer to the strange fact that a mushroom, one single species, the pucka, was 'animate' in their language, was 'endowed with a soul', like all animals and human beings, but unlike all other vegetation, which is construed grammatically as 'inanimate', as 'without a soul'.
~ R. Gordon Wasson
Trump eventually slurs anyone who inconveniences him, and the plain, measurable fact is that a large majority of Jewish American voters continue to vote Democrat.
~ Neil Macdonald
Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.
~ Alan Stern
I don't think Kanye West can support his view that George W. Bush just doesn't care about black people. But it's a demonstrable matter of fact that Bush doesn't care much about black votes. And that, in the end, may amount to the same thing.
~ Jacob Weisberg
Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
~ Charles Olson
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
~ Ulrich Beck
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
~ Arthur Smith
I hate the fact that, all of a sudden now, it's not cool to go to the Gator Bowl. Are you kidding me? I don't like that mindset.
~ Dabo Swinney
With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!
~ Michael Musto
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
~ Andrea Dworkin
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
~ Walter Kaufmann
Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern Fact, the sad self, unrelenting identical that I fled from.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson