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Fact Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to…
- Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
- One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
- Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely…
- The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of…
- Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally…
- The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place.…
- Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;…
- The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and…
- It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound…
- But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the…
- The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
- The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a…
- The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not…
- The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
- It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to…
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms,…
- Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked.…
- The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were…
- If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development,…
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- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
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