Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is th...
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. ...
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.
Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.
I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.
The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.
I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
In fact, the world needs more nerds.
You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution.
The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no one could deny to be a matter of fact, when his attention was drawn to the evidence; and the occurrence of great geolo...
Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad habit of thought compels us to feel and do. A moment of clear and complete knowledge of wha...
Facts," murmured Basil, like one mentioning some strange, far-off animals, "how facts obscure the truth. I may be silly—in fact, I'm off my head—but I never could believe in that man—what's his name, in those capital stories?—Sherlock Holmes....
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.
Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.
