David Brin Quotes

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

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

Fact and fiction are different truths.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths and there are made up truths.

What I want people to consider is that no matter what it is we want to believe, and no matter what story it is we want to jam the world into, the truth is the truth.

Facts are facts.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

Facts do not constitute truth.

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

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Truth is truth no matter what I think.

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.