Assumption Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

“To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority…

— Robert Lane Greene

I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and…

— E. O. Wilson

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of…

— Albert Einstein

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious…

— Virginia Woolf

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of…

— Adam Grant

Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our…

— David Duchovny

Many Things We Accept As Fact Today Were Ridiculed And Opposed In The Not-Too-Distant Past; This Goes To Show That Just Because An Idea…

— Pacifiersucker

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

— Anonymous

“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds…

— George Orwell

Many things we accept as fact today were ridiculed and opposed in the not-too-distant past; this goes to show that just because an idea…

— Melchor Lim

“The human understanding, once it has adopted opinions, either because they were already accepted and believed, or because it likes them, draws everything else…

— Gary Taubes

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

— Huey Newton