Quotations
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- Galbraith quotes
Facing him is hard work because he hits the pitch so hard, allowing him to gain the advantage of any inconsistent pace or bounce from the natural elements of the turf surface. [on Andrew Flintoff]
- Justin Langer quotes
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
- Tryon Edwards quotes
Facts are stubborn things
- Alain-Rene Lesage quotes
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
- Laurence Peter quotes
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 quotes
Facts are stupid things.
- Ronald Reagan quotes
Facts are the air of the scientists. Without them you never can fly
- Ivan Pavlov quotes
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote quotes
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley quotes
Facts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
- Peter Conrad quotes
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
- Robert Browning quotes
Failed the bright promise of your early day?
- Reginald Heber quotes
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
- Helen Rowland quotes
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Effie Jones quotes
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
- Robert Schuller quotes
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
- John Dewey quotes
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
- Daniel Webster quotes
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
- Jules Renard quotes
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes quotes
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of oneself.
- Charlie Chaplin quotes
Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
- Harvey Mackay quotes
Fair and softly goes far.
- Miguel De Cervantes quotes
Fair shares for all, is Labour's call
- Douglas Jay quotes
Fairer and more fruitful in spring the vine becomes from the skilful pruning of the husbandman; less pure had been the gums which the odorous balsam gives if it had not been cut by the knife of the Arabian shepherd.
- Metastasio quotes
Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]
- Christian Karembeu quotes
Faith - the ability to believe the ridiculous for the sublime.
- Rich Bennett quotes
Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony
- Blaise Pascal quotes
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
- Lillian Smith quotes
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
- Albert Pike quotes
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
- Paul Tillich quotes
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
- Eric Hoffer quotes
Faith is a continuation of reason.
- William Adams quotes
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
- Henry Christopher Bailey quotes
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
- George Sand quotes
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
- Kahlil Gibran quotes
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
- Faith Evans quotes
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
- D Elton Trueblood quotes
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active
- Edith Hamilton quotes
