Human mind Quote by Samuel Johnson

“[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely…

— René Descartes

“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

“Society at large is staggeringly obtuse. If one simply looks to others for their opinions, they lose the ability to think critically for themselves.…

— Kerri Maniscalco

“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

The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from…

— H. P. Blavatsky

“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

Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe. They have,…

— Walter Lippmann

“Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than…

— Margaret Thatcher

“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker his first duty is to follow his intellect wherever…

— John Stuart Mill

“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest is now…

— John Stuart Mill