Quotes About Fact

fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.

What I am at heart, I don't know. But I do know that I love children. That's a fact.

There is only one state- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological- in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that 'I' and 'you' are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.

It is a fact that we have always behaved as if we knew all this; but, for the most part, our theoretical concepts have neglected to attach the same importance to the economic line of approach as they have to the dynamic and topographical ones.

They were brave and romantic, tragic and distinguished, and Doremus became a little sick of them all and of the final brutality of fact that no normal man can very long endure another's tragedy, and that friendly weeping will some day turn to irritated kicking.

Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.

The lie at the heart of that bad faith was the desperate attempt to avoid facing the implications of the plain and utterly unwelcome fact that there is no way to make a middle-class lifestyle sustainable

It's so much easier when one faces facts, but then all life is largely based on an avoidance of fact, and I admit I try to avoid them. I

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.

Until the Desert knowsThat Water growsHis Sands sufficeBut let him once suspectThat Caspian FactSahara dies.

"Maternity," it has been said, "is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion."

But a dark cloud was at hand. If there be any truly painful fact about the world now tolerably well established by ample experience and ample records, it is that an intellectual and indolent happiness is wholly denied to the children of men.

Fictitious narrative, whether realistic or romantic, may suggest deeper truths, may tell us more about the heart of man, than all the histories that ever were written; and may tell it more agreeably. But fact has an interest, because it is fact; because it actually happened.

However portentous a fact may be, or even supernatural--if such facts exist--however solemnly a miracle may be done in sight of all, the lightning of that fact, the thunderbolt of that miracle is quickly swallowed up in the ocean of life, whose surface, scarcely stirred by the brief convulsion, returns to the level of its habitual flow.

Faith that denies fact is fanaticism

Every memory is real, but not all are based on fact. Time, forgetfulness, emotional need—any of these things can chip away at memory.

The fact is, that no man, whatever his system may be, refrains from instilling prejudices into his child in any matter he has much at heart.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

Loneliness is just a permanent fact of life. And if you buy into the illusion that you can somehow escape it, you're in for a world of hurt. Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. What an unmitigated pile of shit.