Bernard Baruch Quotes

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

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

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

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

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

When truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

We are all entitled to our own opinion.

I have been saying this from the beginning: people are going to say whatever they want to say or believe whatever they want to believe. I say this to people: stick to the facts.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

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

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

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Everybody is entitled to have an opinion. But it is also useful to have some facts.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth.

If a book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides if we choose.