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"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you."

"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you."

E. L. Konigsburg, American Author

7

"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Sculptor

6

"These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter."

"These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter."

John Lindsay, American Politician

Fact, First, Girls, Play

6

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Fact, Parents, Wishing, Wrong

6

"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."

"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

Fact, Plants, Variety

6

"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."

"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Fact, Generosity, Nothing

6

"A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am."

"A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am."

Edmond Rostand, French Poet

Fact, Liberal, Man, Witty

6

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

George Eliot, British Author

Fact, Giving, Man, Nothing

5

"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed."

"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed."

Garry Winogrand, American Photographer

Fact, Nothing, Will

5

"The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect."

"The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect."

James Payn, English Novelist

Fact, Man, Necessity, Self

5

"We are Englishmen; that is one good fact."

"We are Englishmen; that is one good fact."

Oliver Cromwell, English Soldier

5

"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Fact, Facts, Legends, Reality

5

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

4

"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."

"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."

Louis Kronenberger, American Critic

Fact, Modesty, Nothing, Vanity

4

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

4

"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."

"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

Fact, Thinking, Tradition, James M. Baldwin

4

"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive."

"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive."

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

4

"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."

"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."

Edward Carpenter, English Activist

Fact, Obvious, Value

4

"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."

"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

3

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

3

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

3

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

3

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Fact, Facts, Theories

3

$"It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it."$

"It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it."

Francis William Aston, British Scientist

3

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Fact, Facts, Ignorance, Theory

3

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

3

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

3

"Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space."

"Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space."

Leon Foucault, French Inventor

Fact, Moments, Sense, Space

3

"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."

"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

3

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

3

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

Fact, Infinite, Space

2

"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

Elia Kazan, American Director

2

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

2

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

William James, American Philosopher

Fact, Facts, Religious, Temper

2

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

Victor Hugo, French Author

2

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Fact, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

1

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Fact, Necessity

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