Quotes About Fact

Somewhere between the fact we know and the anxiety we feel is the reality we live."5

Suicide is not a crime in Indiana," said Holmes dismissively. "Therefore, to be an accessory before or after the fact would be no crime in Indiana.

The fact that our relationships work as well as they do is a sure sign of grace

In the end, though, freedom depends upon citizens who are able to make a distinction between what is true and what they want to hear. Authoritarianism arrives not because people say that they want it, but because they lose the ability to distinguish between facts and desires.

I]n politics, reputation is the prologue to fact...

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

really don't see anything romantic in proposing.  It is very romantic to be in love.  But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal.  Why, one may be accepted.  One usually is, I believe.  Then the excitement is all over.  The very essence of romance is uncertainty.  If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals ...

The fact that pigs were abroad in the night seemed to bring home to me the perilous nature of my enterprise.

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.

There are few things more tragic than the desire of the moth for the star; and it is a curious fact that the spectacle of a star almost invariably fills the most sensible moth with thoughts above his station.

In our moments of distress we can see clearly that what is wrong with this world of ours is the fact that Misery loves company and seldom gets it.

It is so. It cannot be otherwise.

Quando estamos errados, podemos admiti-lo. E se lidarem connosco com gentileza e tato, podemos admiti-lo aos outros a até mesmo sentir orgulho pela nossa franqueza e abertura de espírito. Mas não, se for outra pessoa a tentar obrigar-nos a engolir à força um facto desagradável.

Hearing God cannot be a reliable and intelligible fact of life except when we see his speaking as one aspect of his presence with us, of his life in us. Only our communion with God provides the appropriate context for communications between us and him.

We must stop using the fact that we cannot earn grace ( whether for justification or for sanctification) as an excuse for not energetically seeking to receive grace.

Widespread acceptance of a fact is not a proof of its validity.

Edmond found it deeply distressing," Winston continued, "that the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name.

Religious communities cooperate better than nonreligious communities and therefore flourish more readily. This is a scientific fact!

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

We should all do what so many churches already do—openly admit that Adam and Eve did not exist, that evolution is a fact, and that Christians who declare otherwise make us all look foolish.

When we hear a fact, a few isolated areas of our brain light up, translating words and meanings. When we hear a story, however, our brain lights up like Las Vegas, tracing the chains of cause, effect, and meaning. Stories are not just stories; they are the best invention ever created for delivering mental models that drive behavior.