Quotes and Sayings about Facts

Listen to the scientists! Listen to what the facts are!

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do if you're rational.

Part-time information and full-time opinions can be very dangerous.

There is no such thing as "truth" or "lies" in this world; there never has been. There are only plain, hard facts. And yet, all beings who exist in this world acknowledge only those "facts" that are convenient to them, and take them to be the "truth".

All the courage in the world cannot alter fact.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

It'd be great if most opinions would take root in facts.

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

In the age of Trump, we need to be aware of emotional rhetoric and its power regardless of whether or not it's based in fact.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

A smart man once said to me that speculation is a poor form of politics. Why don't you stick to what you know?

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Guzmán: "Because she supports me. Unconditionally."
Nadia: "That isn't love, it's devotion, like you would have for a God. People who love you tell you the truth."

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

Ian Malcolm: "I told the truth."
Peter Ludlow: "Your version of it."
Ian Malcolm: "There are no versions of the truth."

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

I dare saying that in regard of protecting us from Corona, a mask that may be uncomfortable is way more effective than a tin foil hat.

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of the sheep.

Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists.

So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

Now, more than any time in our history, we will be judged by our capacity for compassion. Our ability to come through this, won't just be down to what government or businesses do, but by the individual acts of kindness that we show each other.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

Nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.

Admiration is the furthest thing from understanding.

I'm not fighting because I want to win, I'm fighting because I have to win.

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

This is the end of Wladimir Putin.

Art's only really cool if no one cares - or no one gets it.

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.