Quotes About Fact

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

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

The fact is the American people want men and women to stand up and represent them and to put their interests ahead of the party interests.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

Love potions? For Will Herondale? T'aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that's a fact.

I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.

Raw, glittering force, however, compounded of the cruel Machiavellianism of nature, if it is to be but Machiavellian, seems to exercise a profound attraction for the conventionally rooted. Your cautious citizen of average means, looking out through the eye of his dull world of seeming fact, is often the first to forgive or condone the grim butcheries of theory by which the strong rise.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

For men like William, the need for an audience was a simple fact of knightly life.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

We're all human. It's the most important, neglected fact in business.