Vannevar Bush Quotes

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Men are not necessarily more zealous for truth than they are for error.

We can't assume what we don't believe.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

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

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.