Quotes About Opinion

One should give more weight to research that, while being rigorous, contradicts other peers, particularly if it entails costs and reputational harm for its author. Further, Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a bull***t vendor.*4

Monsieur de Norpois is made to be ashamed of the fact that he expressed a different opinion. Proust did not consider that the diplomat might have changed his mind. We

There is no penalty for opinion makers who harm society.

Notice that close to two centuries ago people had an idealized opinion of their own past, just as we have an idealized opinion of today's past.

One should give more weight to research that, while being rigorous, contradicts other peers, particularly if it entails costs and reputational harm for its author. Further, Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a bull***t vendor.

What matters, in the end, is what they pay for goods, not what they say they "think" about them, or the various possible reasons they give you or themselves for that.

Today academics in abstract disciplines depend on one another's opinion, without external checks, with the severe occasional pathological result of turning their pursuits into insular prowess-showing contests.

Web-shaming is much more powerful than past reputational blots, and more of a tail risk.

I have always hated employment and the associated dependence on someone else's arbitrary opinion, particularly when much of what's done inside large corporations violates my sense of ethics.

It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view—and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite. Almost all of my non–Yogi Berra quotes are from people I disagree with.

We cannot teach people to withhold judgment; judgments are embedded in the way we view objects.

I prefer to remain a skeptic. People frequently misinterpret my opinion. I never said that every rich man is an idiot and every unsuccessful person unlucky, only that in absence of much additional information it is preferable to reserve one's judgment. It is safer. Ten • LOSER TAKES ALL—ON THE NONLINEARITIES OF LIFE The nonlinear viciousness of life.

Nunca pergunte, a quem quer que seja, qual é sua opinião, previsão ou recomendação. Simplesmente pergunte o que a pessoa tem — ou não — em seu portfólio de investimentos.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to.

by exposing an idea in raw form, allows it to be judged by the public.

I have always hated employment and the associated dependence on someone else's arbitrary opinion

Look it. Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover?

Even popular opinion warns that bad information is worse than no information at all.

A book review, good or bad, can be far more descriptive of the reviewer than informational about the book itself.

Men of his strength of purpose, and customary sagacity, if they chance to adopt a mistaken opinion in practical matters, so wedge it and fasten it among things known to be true, that to wrench it out of their minds is hardly less difficult than pulling up an oak.

El público es caprichoso; es capaz de negar la justicia común cuando se le exige violentamente como un derecho, lo es también de conceder más allá de lo justo cuando el requerimiento se verifica como a los déspotas les gusta, entregándose por completo al amo.

No, it's not! says Emby. Hey—he wanted my opinion, I gave it. But it's wrong! You see, Hayden? You see what you started? Yes! Hayden says excitedly. It looks like we're about to have our own little Heartland War. Pity it's too dark for us to watch it.

You see, a conflict always begins with an issue—a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.

Morrison kept looking to everyone else, probably hoping someone would provide him with an opinion, because he wasn't ready to have one of his own.