Answers Quote by John Tuley

It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.

— Hank Green

The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Anonymous

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

— Charles Simmons

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather…

— John Banham

“The way we consume information leads us to think less and less about more and more. We spend much of our time fixated on…

— Matthew Kelly

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it…

— Bill Bullard

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

— Michel de Montaigne

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.

— Thomas Jefferson