Joe Manchin Quotes

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

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

He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

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

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.

When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

I always make decisions with the facts so I would look to make an early decision with the benefit of the facts.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

We have to make the right decisions.

I can assure all Americans that the best decision is going to be made based on all of the information presented to the president.

We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such a powerof guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a really good idea. You must avoid the nonsense that is conventional in one's own time. It requires developing systems of thought that improve your batting average over time.

Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.