Fact
A doing, making, or preparing.
An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.
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Fact Quotations
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Tony Robbins
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
Steve Jobs
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
John Lennon
Fact Translations
fact in Afrikaans is feit
fact in Danish is faktum
fact in Dutch is feit
fact in Finnish is tosiasia
fact in French is factum
fact in German is Tatsache, Tatsache, Faktum
fact in Norwegian is faktum, kjennsgjerning
fact in Portuguese is fato
fact in Spanish is hecho
fact in Swedish is faktum
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