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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

Paulo Coelho : author of The Alchemist
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'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its "collision with error." If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.'

Carl Edward Sagan : US scientist, astronomer, professor at Cornell, author, known for popularizing science
Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Source: The Demon Haunted World
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From its abstractionist posture, intellectualism typically conveys the impression that it is chiefly or only from passion that rationality can suffer; the folk-wisdom among rationalists is that emotion is the primary pollutant obstructing rational processes. But it is also, and far more pertinently in our age, from apathy that rationality suffers: when people do not care enough to think about received opinions, when they have no inherent drive to dissociate themselves from the dogmas and biases of their age, when their own freedom and the transcendence of the truth mean so little to them that they will not endure the painful task of self-reflection, when the very scale or profundity of problems the modern age has generated invite a defeatist attitude, then indeed it is truer than ever what Kierkegaard wrote a century and a half ago: "What the age needs is passion," not barbaric but sublimated energy. Hegel's truism about history--that "nothing great is ever accomplished without passion"--explains a great deal about our effete culture, our sterile education and stagnant politics. Like Marx and Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Hegel wrote out of a prodigious reservoir of passion that did not in the least prevent them from being critical and rational. In our present era--wracked by a morbid boredom and an unshakeable conviction that there is nothing worth learning and preserving--I believe the lesson is clear. Difficult and risky as it may be, heat as well as light is called for.

Kenneth Smith
 
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Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.

Rob Brezsny : Gaia Explorer
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Truth is perspective; absolute truth is ego.

Earon : Primate
Earon Davis
Source: Earon's writings
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.

unknown : Gaia Child
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Source: Search Magazine
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Truth is opinion with an attitude.

Earon : Primate
Earon Davis
Source: Earon Davis writings
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!

Jonathan Swift,satirist (1667-1745)
Source: My diary
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Sri Aurobindo : Gaia Explorer
Sri Aurobindo
Source: Sri Aurobindo. Jnana // ESSAYS DIVINE AND HUMAN. Vol.17: http://www.aurobindo.ru/workings/sa/17/0066_e.htm
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"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
 
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He that would win another over to his opinion must seem to harmonize with him at first and humour him in his own way of talking. From my childhood I had an unaccountable turn of thought that way.

David Berman
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates (c.460 - 400 BC)
 
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
 
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If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill : British economist & philosopher
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
 
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Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy : American Statesman (35th US president: 1961-63), youngest president
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
 
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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

Angela Carter (1940 - 1992)
 
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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William Inge
 
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : Roman Emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)
 
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Source: Unknown
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A representative owes the People not only his industry, but his judgment, and he betrays them if he sacrifices it to their opinion.

Edmund Burke : British statesman
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Source: Quoted in the musical stage play 1776, Peter Stone & Sherman Edwards, 1964
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What are the facts? Again and again and again—what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history"; what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Source: Time Enough for Love, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
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It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

Murray Rothbard : Gaia Child
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"When a man gives his opinion he's a man.
When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch."

Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
 
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Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi : Gaia Explorer
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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. . . The slogan "You are entitled to your opinion" is so often repeated that is near impossible for the brain of a modern Westerner not to have absorbed it.

Like many other views that have at times enjoyed universal assent, however, it isn't true. You don't really have the right to your own opinions. And the idea that you do, beside being false, is forever being invoked when it would be irrelevant even if it were true.

Jamie Whyte
Source: Crimes Against Logic, Page: 2
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