Natalie Jeremijenko Quotes

Writers and politicians don't think the same. They define truth differently.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

Truth is independent of facts always.

We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

The U.S. is not the holder of truth.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

No one individual can tell the truth.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.