Quotes About Opinions

for Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don't count; surviving is what matters.

Being reviewed or assessed by others matters if and only if one is subjected to the judgment of future—not just present—others. And recall that, a free person does not need to win arguments—just win.*2

much of the opinions and assessments that we have concerning risks may be the simple result of emotions.

Luckily, I had some skin in the game for my opinions

Effectively, there is no democracy without such an unconditional symmetry in the rights to express yourself, and the gravest threat is the slippery slope in the attempts to limit speech on grounds that some of it may hurt some people's feelings.

Accept that being human involves some amount of epistemic arrogance in running your affairs. Do not be ashamed of that. Do not try to always withhold judgment—opinions are the stuff of life. Do not try to avoid predicting—yes, after this diatribe about prediction I am not urging you to stop being a fool. Just be a fool in the right places.*

My paternal uncle was not too bothered by my political ideas (these

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative," John Stuart Mill once complained.

Of course such advice is usually unsolicited.

Un hombre es honorable en proporción a los riesgos personales que asume por sus opiniones

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds—so those who delay developing their theories are better off. 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.

the distance between opinions is remarkably narrower than the distance between the average of opinions and truth.

you have the right to contradict me so long as I have the right to contradict you.

They fought about politics. Angelica's husband has ironclad ideas and doesn't like them to be questioned.' 'If they were really ironclad he wouldn't mind discussing them. If he gets that angry, it means his ideas are more like cheese than iron.' (Happiness, As Such)

Montaigne admits to getting carried away in the heat of an argument, exaggerating the naked truth by the vigor of his words. Yet we all insist upon our opinions, forcing them upon others by iron and fire. Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure, to be an apprentice at sixty than to present oneself as a doctor at ten.

Often what people call "thinking" is merely recycling the opinions of others.

Love the ponytail, Connor says, pointing at his hair. Lev shrugs. It's just because my hair is so tatted. But maybe I'll keep it. Don't, Connor tells him. I lied. I hate it.

I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch

And everyone else was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on a single issue.

No me gustan los niños. -Tampoco te gustan mucho los adultos. Ni nadie que esté entre unos y otros.

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Some people don't like anybody who is famous. Some people don't like anybody who isn't.