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My opinions have changed, but not the fact
that I am right.
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-Ashleigh Brilliant
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*Not to draw a conclusion,
in some cases, is as much a breach of correct reasoning as it would be to
draw a mistaken conclusion.
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-Irving Copi and Carl Cohen
Introduction to Logic, Tenth Edition,
1998
Chapter 6 : Fallacies, 6.2, "Fallacies of Relevance", R1, "The Argument
from Ignorance: Argument Ad Ignorantiam"
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Taste may be compared to that exquisite
sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence
of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.
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-Fulke Greville
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My right to swing my fist ends where the
other man's nose begins.
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-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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One of the commonest ailments of the present
day is premature formation of an opinion.
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-Kin Hubbard
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Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth
lets these rigidify into convictions.
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-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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-Plato
Theaetetus
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*An opinion is only
important when expressed in action.
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence to Alan Collins (her literary agent at Curtis
Brown, Ltd.), June 24,1946
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 6, "The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged Years (1945-1959)"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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*A great many people do not
have the right to their own opinions because they don't know what they're
talking about.
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-Mickey Rooney
Not That You Asked. . .
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He thinks by infection, catching an opinion
like a cold.
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-John Ruskin
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~The fact that an opinion
has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;
indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread
belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
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-Bertrand Russell
Marriage and Morals, 1929
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Offensiveness is a necessary consequence of
opinions strongly held and openly expressed, and free societies should
treasure and protect it. An idea that offends no one is not worth
entertaining.
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-Unknown
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