Quotes About Fact

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

It is a tragic but inescapable fact that most of the finest fruits of human progress, like all of the nobler virtues of man, are the exclusive possession of small minorities, chiefly unpopular and disreputable.

Filipinos were famous for their garrulousness. They were the Irish of Asia, it was sometimes said—warm, openhearted, story-loving, with unslakable appetites for the latest rumor or fact.

The truth is always a surprise.

In other words, if a patent forgery like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is believed by so many people that it can become the text of a whole political movement, the task of the historian is no longer to discover a forgery. Certainly it is not to invent explanations which dismiss the chief political and historical facts of the matter: that the forgery is being believed. This fact is more important than the (historically speaking, secondary) circumstance that it is a forgery.

it is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.

In other words, the deliberate denial of factual truth—the ability to lie—and the capacity to change facts—the ability to act—are interconnected; they owe their existence to the same source: imagination.

You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.

'Tis true 'tis pity And pity 'tis 'tis true.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.

The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

A fact is not a truth until you love it.

Lord Bancroft had demanded that she source each fact and justify every opinion, while he played devil's advocate and asked why she didn't believe in the exact opposite of what she did.

Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Caro was coming round to the fact of unhappiness: to a realization that Dora created unhappiness and the she was bound to Dora.