Fact Quotes
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The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
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Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.
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It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.
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People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.
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The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.
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It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.
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One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . . . It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature. What is intelligible is also beautiful.
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I know for a fact my house is gone.
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
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The fact you have to pay 50p to use the loo in some places is the root of the world's issues.
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Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.
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I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.
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I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.
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In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.
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Little known fact, or not a little known fact actually - that Prince is a Gemini.
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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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I have no problem with Jurgen Klopp. In fact we have a great relationship, he transferred me from Mainz.
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In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality.
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I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.
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But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
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I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.
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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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Sure, I do wish I sometimes got to play more heroes, but hey, I can't beat the fact that I am working constantly. Anyway, look at me. I'm six-four, three feet wide, have a really deep voice, and this face; I'm not precisely the romantic comedy stereotype, right?
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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.
