Quotes
Quotes about Fact
A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.
These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed, but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right; But if to-morrow never came, No end were of "to-night." The fact is this, time flies so fast, That e'er we've time to say "To-morrow's come," presto! behold! "To-morrow" proves "To-day."
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time.
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himselfâ ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanityâ before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man, History and tradition are explored in vain For a parallel to his character. In the annals of modern greatness He stands alone; And the noblest names of antiquity Lose their lustre in his presence. Born the benefactor of mankind, He united all the greatness necessary To an illustrious career. Nature made him great, He made himself virtuous.
The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.
No good man ever became suddenly rich. [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.]
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
