#opinion

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#gullibility #public-opinion #intelligence

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#close-mindedness #intelligence #isaac-asimov #knowledge #open-mind

One’s opinion should only be as strong as one’s knowledge on the matter. ↗

— Eric Hirzel

#close-mindedness #intelligence #knowledge #open-mindedness #opinions

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#public-opinion #life

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ↗

— Gelett Burgess

#check #dead #discarded #few #haven

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#bertrand #evidence #foolish #majority #opinion

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#opinion #time #nature

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas. ↗

— John Scalzi

#respect

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#christ #christian #opinions #christ

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear. ↗