Factual Accuracy Quotes

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.

When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual.

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Confronted by an unknowable, historians demand evidence, witnesses, corroboration.

I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try to have a conversation with you to ask why it offends you, and tell you why objective truth should not offend you because that's how the world works.

You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit.

We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

I have been saying this from the beginning: people are going to say whatever they want to say or believe whatever they want to believe. I say this to people: stick to the facts.

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

Writers and politicians don't think the same. They define truth differently.

'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.

Democrats refuse to deal with reality. They make things up, sensationalize common sense solutions, and exacerbate this obsession over political correctness.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

Facts matter, especially when they conflict with dogma and preconceived notions. Pretending otherwise has consequences.

I found it unworthy of publication because it is not supported by any scientific or historic facts. Moreover, as a matter of principle, it's not right to exchange silly and false information about the use of human blood in the food of other humans whoever they may be because such a thing doesn't exist in the world at all.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.