Fact Quotes

Believe it or not, there are twice as many eyebrows in the world as there are people.

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.