A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhanMots clés wisdom opinion understanding insight social-science probes
The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]
Tim GunnMots clés judgment opinion taste viewpoint
I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side."
I can see your side," said Cecily. "I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side.
Mots clés opinion
I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...)
What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What happens to your soul when you get unwound?"
Who says I even got one?"
For the sake of argument, let's say you do."
Who says I want an argument?
Mots clés soul afterlife opinion viewpoint unwound
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart MillMots clés society philosophy eccentricity opinion
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.
John LockeMots clés philosophy belief opinion
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
John Maynard KeynesMots clés history opinion ideas
They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
Giordano BrunoMots clés truth opinion argument dispute
I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.
Sam HarrisMots clés opinion ignorance string-theory ted-bundy
A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.
Jack GardnerMots clés speech opinion prejudice
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