Joseph Ben Abba Mari Caspi Quotes

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

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

I don't listen to opinions.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

Neither truth, reason, nor justice consists in stubbornness of assertion, nor in the repetition of error.

Opinions should not be allowed to become conclusions

If you want someone to accept new evidence, make sure to present it to them in a context that doesn’t trigger a defensive, emotional reaction.

If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

I always try and distinguish between facts and opinions.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.

With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.

I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"