Accounts Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

— Jane Austen

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of…

— John Stuart Mill

“In the business of scholarship, evidence is far more flexible than opinion. The prevailing view of the past is controlled not by evidence but…

— Hugh Nibley

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from…

— H. P. Blavatsky

“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information.”

— Eliezer S. Yudkowsky

One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones.

— P.D. Ouspensky

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

— Benjamin Cardozo

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn’t fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight to evidence…

— Paula Stokes