Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

—Bernard Baruch

About Bernard Baruch

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Bernard Mannes Baruch (August 19, 1870 – June 20, 1965) was an American financier and statesman.

More quotations from Bernard Baruch

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

—Bernard Baruch

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

—Bernard Baruch

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

—Bernard Baruch

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

—Bernard Baruch

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

—Bernard Baruch

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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

—Alexander Hamilton

I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!

—John Stuart Mill

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In a quarrel, each side is right.

—Yiddish folk saying

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Opinions are made to be changed—or how is truth to be got at?

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