Fawad Khan Quotes

If you believe in something, be willing to explain it.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

You can’t have opinions unless you have information.

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