fact quotes

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Belief creates the actual fact.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.