Thomas Nagel Quotes

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

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

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

Facts are better than dreams.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

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

Without facts you can't have truth.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

Is not the truth the truth?

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

No authority is higher than reality.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.