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It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.

It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.

It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.

It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say "that is red" instead of "that reddens," either in the sense of growing, becoming, red, or in the sense of making something else red.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves

It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.