Rebecca Solnit Quotes

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

The Republicans love the truth, but they hate facts.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

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

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

This is in us: a certain sense of denial, a certain sense of groupthink. This is not something that sits on one party line or the other. We've seen it in all permutations throughout history, and at the core of it is a certain insistence that what we want to be true is now true, and what we don't like is now false.

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

Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

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

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

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.

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.

You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

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

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.