Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

Facts matter, especially when they conflict with dogma and preconceived notions. Pretending otherwise has consequences.

I have been saying this from the beginning: people are going to say whatever they want to say or believe whatever they want to believe. I say this to people: stick to the facts.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

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

We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there. Where people will dismiss eyewitness accounts, on the basis of their gut feelings; where they will refute scientific discoveries because the scientist just doesn't look trustworthy.

Politics can cloud objectivity.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

I don't listen to opinions.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.