Fact Quotes

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him. (Jonathan Swift)
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. View quote
Socrates
In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. View quote
Terence
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. View quote
Thucydides
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live nobly, but within no one's reach to live long. View quote
Seneca
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Most people would rather die than think in fact, they do so. View quote
Bertrand Russell
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. View quote
H. G. Wells
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. (Margaret Fuller)
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. View quote
Anthony Robbins
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past. View quote
William Faulkner
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. View quote
Robertson Davies
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. View quote
Anton Chekhov
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. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. View quote
William James
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. View quote
George Eliot
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California, you lose one point of IQ every year. (Truman Capote)
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. View quote
Henry James
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. View quote
Stephen Harper
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. View quote
Arianna Huffington
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. View quote
Andrea Dworkin