Action Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Those who based decisions on principle, not some snapshot of public opinion, were often vindicated over time.”

— George W. Bush

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors.”

— Voltaire

“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

So many people have opinions based not on fact but spite.

— Tobias Forge

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed…

— Anonymous

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

— Lord Acton

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

— John Locke

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

“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

I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what…

— Robert Mueller

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

— Thomas Jefferson