Quotes about Fact

The act of revelation is a mystery, while the record of revelation is a literary fact, phrased in the language of man.

The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent.

George Smeaton wrote, "[The apostle Paul] exhibits the two great counterparts of sin and righteousness as equal realities — the one as the world's ruin, the other as its restoration. The one is a completed fact as well as the

A writer's job is to tell the truth. His standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. For facts can be observed badly; but when a good writer is creating something, he has time and scope to make an absolute truth.6

This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

When a person says, "What I believe is just as valid as anything you or anyone else believes," recognize the statement for what it is: a declaration that is not only childish and untrue but also easily refuted. Mature people understand that while they are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts.

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.

What child is this? "The Infinite has become a finite fact." Everything depends on this, or the nativity story is just a child's fable that no thinking adult can believe.

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.