It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.
It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
The opinion that Trump equals hate is not a fact. It is a view.
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.
You don't need people's opinion on a fact.
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.
Facts do not give advice.
I don't take others' views seriously because that isn't a fact. I do respect everyone's view, but I am not affected.
It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so
There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
Speaking of honesty, if you're like me you turn on the news to get information - a set of facts. If you want opinion, you come to shows like mine, where our prejudices and biases and opinions are made known; there's no false pretenses that you're getting pure objectivity.
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
We'll have to avoid the perils of false equivelance, quoting a person on each side as if there was a genuine debate when we knoow that there isn't.
We have a mantra. 'Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs'.
You can have opinions, but it doesn't mean they're right.
The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.
Patrick Moynihan famously said that everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts. Liberals want to turn that on its head and claim that their opinions are facts and anyone who disagrees isn’t merely voicing a bad opinion but it somehow living in alternative reality or “denying” science. It’s the secular version of claiming that God is on your side.
Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational
Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'
