Fact Quotes - page 2

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. (Karen Armstrong)
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. View quote
Noël Coward
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. View quote
Heinrich Heine
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. (Arthur C. Clarke)
What is more important in a library than anything else - is the fact that it exists. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. View quote
Edward Teller
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. View quote
Dave Barry
I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
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. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. View quote
Charles de Lint
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
The producer. This is a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. View quote
James Agate
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. (James Thurber)
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. View quote
William James
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. View quote
Ayn Rand