Fact Quotes - page 4

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. (Bertrand Russell)
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. View quote
Bertrand Russell
"I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.”. View quote
Whitney Houston
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. View quote
Grover Cleveland
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. View quote
Václav Havel
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. View quote
David Hume
I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground. View quote
Serge Lang
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. View quote
Bob Dylan
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. (Richard Dawkins)
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. View quote
Denis Diderot
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. View quote
Dick Cheney
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. View quote
Roman Polański
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. View quote
Bill Gates
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. it looks terrible but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a war is decided by the people--not by one of two new types of weapon. View quote
Mao Zedong
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. (Henry Hazlitt)
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. View quote
Mark Twain
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. View quote
Sydney J. Harris