Quotes of: Fact Keyword

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

Margaret Wertheim

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

Virat Kohli

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.

Aldous Huxley

The fact that you don't feel Him [God] holding you doesn't change the fact that He still is.

Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

Wilson Rawls

The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

An enthusiastic philosopher, of whose name we are not informed, had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other, and was not a little proud of it. "But the facts, my dear fellow," said his friend, "the facts do not agree with your...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover th...

The Good Guy

The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in physical terms. All that the theory of the social sciences attempts is to provide a technique of reasoning whi...

Individualism and Economic Order

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept ...

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Consider the facts seven times before you suspect someone.

Japanese

A language is a map of our failures

The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

Going Bovine

After a long period of reflection, he decided that he was in fact right yet again.

The Book of Shadows

A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.

Adam's Animals - fun facts about God's Creation

Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it.

Ascension Denied

You are the stories you tell, whatever their basis in fact or experience. It’s who you are.

The Kills

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they’re more powerful than most things.

The Orphanage of Miracles