Quotes About Fact

The Spanish authorities attributed La Pérouse's opinions to the regrettable fact that the man was French, but his writings made a profound impression on Padre Mendoza.

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact.

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

The most important thing I want people to know about Haiti is the fact that we have some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, and there is such an opportunity for this to be such a destination. It is not a country that is just turmoil.

Even in the news division of Fox - which I want to make very clear and I have from the very beginning - I am not a journalist. In fact, I wear that as a badge of honor.

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

It's an important fact of life, war.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

May we never again read about Dark Ages peasants eating tomatoes; unbelievably plucky/feisty liberated medieval heroines with names like Dominique; 18th-century travelers crossing Europe or the Atlantic in a week; slang that's sixty years ahead of its time and many, many other such common anachronisms of fact and attitude...

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

a series of corroborative facts is not necessarily evidence. Seeing

Is it a fact – or have I dreamt it – that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

I had also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever published fact, a new observation of thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.

É muito fácil esconder nossa ignorância debaixo de expressões como plano de criação, unidade de padrão, etc., e pensar que explicamos um fato apenas por reafirmá-lo.

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.

There was something missing. But in my world, there is never time to figure out what is, in fact, missing.

My own motivation has come from the fact that all the indicators in the world, the hunger index or whatever index you say, shows a high prevalence of malnutrition.

Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose.

A stick is not only wood but the negation of wood. It is the meeting in space of wood and no-wood. A stick is finite and unextended wood, a fact determined by its own denial.