Fact Quotes
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Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
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He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.
Albert Camus
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Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.
Abigail Padgett
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
Sydney J. Harris
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
J. Anderson Thomson
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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?
Brian Thompson
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"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."
Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
George Voinovich
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It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.
Alistair Begg
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The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.
Paul Krugman
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The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.
Josef Albers