#pinions

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#curing #earlier #false #follies #latter

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#only #opinions #own #people #their

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#information

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#assumptions #biases #criticize #judge #judging

Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits. ↗

— Yahtzee Croshaw

#fans #funny-but-true #opinions #funny

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#belief #controversial #controversy #debating #difference

It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#counsel #encouragement #guidance #help #opinions

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#humility #opinions #richelle #richelle-goodrich #speaking

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub. ↗

— Thomas More

#human-nature #opinions #love

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#intelligence #opinions #stupidity #intelligence