Michael Faraday Quotes

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a good answer, I hope you'll think very carefully before you believe a word they say.

We need proof in our society.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

Knowledge consists in understanding the evidence that establishes the fact, not in the belief that it is a fact.

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Nobody should believe something just because an intelligence agent says it.

I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?

You've accepted a lot of things without evidence. Find out what the evidence is for that. Find out what the evidence is for everything that you accept.

Argument is not always truth.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

You can't believe everything you read. It's never been more true.

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

Don't you believe what you read.

I always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then it's generally not true. Or it's an exaggeration.