Barack Obama Quotes

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

Information is bad for knowledge.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

Seek truth from facts.

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

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

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

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

You can’t have opinions unless you have information.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has the right to be wrong in his facts.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

In this Day the secrets of the earth are laid bare before the eyes of men. The pages of swiftly-appearing newspapers are indeed the mirror of the world. They reflect the deeds and the pursuits of diverse peoples and kindreds. They both reflect them and make them known. They are a mirror endowed with hearing, sight and speech. This is an amazing and potent phenomenon. However, it behooveth the writers thereof to be purged from the promptings of evil passions and desires and to be attired with the raiment of justice and equity. They should enquire into situations as much as possible and ascertain the facts, then set them down in writing.

You can’t report on something that you don’t know about.

Don’t believe everything the professors tell you. Get your own information on your own terms.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.