Marchette Chute Quotes

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

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Facts matter, especially when they conflict with dogma and preconceived notions. Pretending otherwise has consequences.

Beware of current truths.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't truly understand.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

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

As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

Opinions should not be allowed to become conclusions