Fact Resistance Quotes

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

I'm not a fan of the facts. Facts change; my opinion never does.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable.

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

I think that what led largely to Trump's election was the manifestation of the too-common mindset that facts don't matter; in other words, "manifest destiny" - the truth will not penetrate the barriers of our ideology if the truth doesn't sit well with our predispositions.

There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

For some reason, there are political forces that somehow feel threatened by honest inquiry. How can you be threatened by wanting to know the facts?

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.