Molefi Kete Asante Quotes

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

I think science is real.

Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

Facts do not constitute truth.

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

The world divides into facts.

Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.