Assuming Quote by John Stuart Mill

“There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted,…

— John Stuart Mill

“A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as…

— Walter Lippmann

“Those who would suppress an opinion (it is assumed that they are honest) deny its truth, but they are not infallible. They may be…

— John Bagnell Bury

“First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to…

— John Stuart Mill

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

— Rebecca Goldstein

“(I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)”

— Rebecca Goldstein

“I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree…

— William Beaumont

“But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself,…

— Frederick Douglass

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is…

— Georg Cantor

“Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear … than a fact that he wishes was an opinion.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Truth is truth. Implications are subjective. People will hear your words and draw their own conclusion.”

— Neal Shusterman