Quote by Ludwik Fleck

“Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When you enter the realm of politics and ideology, the distinction between opinion and fact starts to cloud, and the stakes become dauntingly high;…

— Michael Hirschorn

“…But sometimes a person begins with opinions and judgments and valid criticisms, but then things creep in that have nothing to do with forming…

— Thomas Mann

“First, our communities expose us to disproportionate support for our own ideas. Second, they shield us from the disagreement of outsiders. Third, they cause…

— Kathryn Schulz

“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

“Each opinion, each view is necessarily partial, truncated, inadequate. In philosophy and in anything, originality comes down to incomplete definitions.”

— Emil Cioran

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

— John Locke

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all…

— Francis Bacon

“Sentiment has never been vanquished in its eternal conflict with reason”

— Gustave Le Bon

“the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of adverse opinions…

— John Stuart Mill

“Contrary opinions are one thing, contrary facts are another.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Progression halts and learning retrogrades once a haphazard ideology transpires. A nexus of theories can’t disprove one single fact, and a farraginous of opinions…

— Calvin W. Allison