Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths and there are made up truths.
Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.
Ball don't lie!
Economics is not a morality play.
All I can do is my talking on the track, and I believe that when they look at the facts, people can judge for themselves if it's good or bad.
There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
You can tell so many facts that you never get to the truth
But facts are facts and flinch not.
Patrick Moynihan famously said that everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts. Liberals want to turn that on its head and claim that their opinions are facts and anyone who disagrees isn’t merely voicing a bad opinion but it somehow living in alternative reality or “denying” science. It’s the secular version of claiming that God is on your side.
Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life.
I can't shout out, "Do this." I don't want to be prescriptive. I want to give you facts, and that's the way I've always operated, whether it's a historical fact or a scientific fact, and then you actually have to connect it in your brain.
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'
The New York Times and PBS are gatekeepers of a sort. And they perform that role of gatekeeping with a set of rules and aspirations about where they want to lead their viewers and their readers. They value objective facts, and they attempt to transmit a comprehensive view of the world. And they do have values. And they do lead their viewers and their readers to certain conclusions. But it's different than such monopolies as Apple or Google which are dissecting information into these bits and pieces, which they're then transmitting to people. And it's about clicks.
When a fact begins to resemble whatever you feel is true, it becomes very difficult for anyone to tell the difference between facts that are true and 'facts' that are not.
