Chuck Eddy Quotes

People should be judged by the principles they espouse and the principles they betray.

See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

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

There's nothing wrong with changing your position to fit the facts; there's everything wrong with changing the facts to fit your position.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has the right to be wrong in his facts.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

I've never really dissed Ma$e - I just tell you the truth, and if you think he's a sucker for that, it ain't my fault.

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.