Quotes
Quotes about Fact
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.]
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]
In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come of thier satisfaction.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.
It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
History is a confused heap of facts.
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; in fact, spirit is the essence of being human. You have a body that may become ill; you have a psyche that may become disturbed. But the spirit is what you are. It is your healthy core.
To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a fact, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. -Dr. Joyce Brothers.
