Dale Carnegie Quotes

You can’t have opinions unless you have information.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

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

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details.

I'm the type of person who responds to facts.

I have opinions that are based on the facts that are presented to me.

I think what you expect of every candidate and ultimately of a president is to listen to the facts and to deal with things in a way that's smart and direct. I'm confident that's exactly what President [Donald] Trump will do.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Working people really amaze me. When you give them all the facts, they make the right decision every single time.

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.

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.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

I think like a detective.