Fact
Definition: A thing that is known or proved to be true.
Number of Quotes: 19
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John
Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
Douglas Adams
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do
it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that
they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
Douglas Adams
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices
which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.
Douglas Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or
the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced
out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.
Scott Adams
You don't have to be a person of influence
to be influential. In fact, the most
influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
Scott Adams
A triviality is a statement whose opposite is false. However, a great truth is a statement whose opposite may well be another great truth.
Niels Bohr
'Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.
George Byron
Accountants and market researchers may be brilliant at examining and analysing facts about the past, but they have no forward vision.
Terence Conran
Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative
official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!
Mary Parker Follett
Throne of Glass
readers tend to be passionate, talented, clever, and welcoming - in
fact, I'm consistently moved by just how welcoming TOG
readers are to new fans.
Sarah J. Maas
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak
I don't make jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a
lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I've started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact
that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to.
Tinie Tempah
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