Quotes
Quotes about Fact
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.
They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons.
Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum Quaerere.]
Since twelve honest men have decided the cause, And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws.
The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
Hypotheses multiply so as to fill the gaps in factual knowledge concerning biological phenomena.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950.
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
