Ability Quote by Robert M. Pirsig

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

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate…

— Nate Silver

“The real trouble begins when confirmation bias distorts your active pursuit of facts.”

— David McRaney

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new…

— Brian Eno

“The last major risk to getting good facts is our own prejudices. While we may not always test a solution based on our opinions…

— Nat Greene

Lack of new current information will affect your effectiveness, drain your enthusiasm and rot your skills.

— Prodigy

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

— Warren Buffett

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

— Kool Moe Dee

There is a big difference between what you know and what you think you know, learn the facts before jumping to conclusions.

— Rashida Rowe

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

— James Carville

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

— A. A. Gill