David Baldacci Quotes

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

Never confuse wishes with facts.

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

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

No authority is higher than reality.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

Facts are better than dreams.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Without facts you can't have truth.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.