Sure Narrative

“When one is sufficiently sure of a narrative and unassailable in its adherence, mere facts become trifles, easy to ignore or explain away as bad research or a simple matter of we have simply not learned how to prove our case yet. This is how bad scientists, lawyers, reporters, businessmen and politicians style themselves as good people.”
--Baroque Gato

Believe Things

“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.”
--Thomas Sowell

A Fool Defined

“A fool is one who sees the facts, knows the truth, but still believes the lies.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Opinion Formation

“It is often very illuminating to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?”
--Walter Lippmann

Facts and Opinions

“People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.” --James W. Loewen

Believing Untrue Things

“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”
--George Orwell

Denying Facts

“Denying facts does not change facts.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Facts Care Not

“Facts don't care about your feelings.”
--Ben Shapiro

People Lie

"Facts do not lie, people do.”
--Michael Jackson

Dumb Intellects

“So many people in the intelligentsia that think they are immune to facts.”
--Thomas Sowell

False Beliefs

“Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.”
--Henry Rosovsky

Stubbord Facts

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
--John Adams

True Facts

“Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.”
--Dan Wells

Forget Facts

“You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.”
--Eric Mazur

Hope and Despair

“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”
--Alain de Botton

Report the Facts

“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
--Will Rogers

No Stopping Anger

“An angry man rarely stops to let facts get in the way of his fury.”
--Nikki Sex

Know What to Know

“Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.”
--Robert Lynd

Your Opinion

“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”
--Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Disbelief

“As a rule we disbelieve all facts and theories for which we have no use.”
--William James