Maria Ressa Quotes

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

I deal in facts.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

Facts matter a great deal to me.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

Truth cannot be defeated.

The most difficult thing for a manager to determine is when a fact is really a fact.

Facts are better than dreams.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

True information does good.

The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events: its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself...

When truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

Fact doesn't have to be plausible; it just has to be fact.

I state facts all the time.