Matt Skiba Quotes

Facts are better than dreams.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

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

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

No authority is higher than reality.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.