Quotes About Fact

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.

It is a historical fact that President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with apprehending terrorists. We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush because, as an executive, he had his authority.

Tesla has defied everyone's predictions again and again. It has such a unique position in the market, and so far, whatever people think about Tesla and its business model, there is one fact that nobody can dispute: It pretty much has the market to itself.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.

Suffering is accumulated, said my friend, that's a fact, and the greater the suffering, the smaller the coincidence.

new "fact of life" (one that conformed to the secret nature of the sun) became the magical formula of the aeon; life comes from death.

But the lonely fancy that had not fact to feed on, nor the fancy of any other for fellowship, was for its loneliness mad.

The lonely fancy that had not fact to feed on, nor the fancy of any other for fellowship, was for its loneliness mad.

Pelagia put her hands on her hips, taking advantage of the superiority implicit in the fact that she was standing and he lying down.

Everything here is true, but it might not be entirely factual.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us. Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. This spirit of mutual inquiry is the very antithesis of religious faith.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

The gradual development of the equality of conditions is therefore a providential fact. It has the essential characteristics of one: it is universal, durable, and daily proves itself to be beyond the reach of man's powers. Not a single event, not a single individual, fails to contribute to its development.

Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world, a world not only of fact but of imagination and emotion.

fact, grandiosity is the defense against depression, and depression is the defense against the deep pain over the loss of the self that results from denial.

If this were fiction, as I said, it would be too much, but it is true.