One must not mistake majority for truth.
Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality
Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.
I have to take decisions—not back hunches.
I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.
Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.
Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.
It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.
Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly.
We have an expression in New York City government - "In God we trust, but for everyone else, bring data." It's so easy to pick up a sound byte and say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, I believe that," without really thinking.
I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.
It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
All I am saying is that if you want to answer a question, then we need to examine and weigh up the evidence. To me, that's not dogmatic that's just... what else would you do?
