Being true Quote by David J. Lieberman

We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

— Thomas Gilovich

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

— Benjamin Cardozo

Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.

— Anonymous

In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have…

— Daniel Gilbert

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

If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Remember that believable opinions are most likely to come from people 1) who have successfully accomplished the thing in question at least three times,…

— Ray Dalio

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory,…

— Milan Kundera

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination…

— Aristotle

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

— Gerry Spence

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

— Anonymous

Sometimes when people say things, we should actually believe what they say.

— Jeb Bush