Bret Stephens Quotes

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

The facts are on our side.

If there is one thing I am, it's always right.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

When truth is on your side, you don't need support.

Without facts you can't have truth.

Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

The most difficult thing for a manager to determine is when a fact is really a fact.

A law is valuable, not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

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

The measure of our [the Voice of America] success will be the degree to which we are believed.

Time trieth truth.

It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong.

They were giving the substance of truth to what we were dreaming.

The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events: its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself...

It is not enough to show me that a measure is expedient: you must show me also that it is right.