Étiquette : Opinion

Remember, you always have the power to have no opinion.

Marcus Aurelius

Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn’t lie to you. It learned more.

Brené Brown

When someone tells you something is wrong, they’re almost always right. When someone tells you how to fix it, they’re almost always wrong.

Ryan Holiday

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that « my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. »

Isaac Asimov

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Harlan Ellison

HiPPO rule decision

Modal bias : HiPPO rules—decisions are made according to the “Highest Paid Person’s Opinion.” HiPPO is a term coined by Avinash Kaushik.

It’s intellectual hubris to think that with a few minutes of googling our opinions are on par with people who have spent their lives in a domain. And yet we’ve been taught that we are entitled to our own opinion and that it deserves equal weighting. Sure you hold your own opinion, but it doesn’t deserve equal weighting.

Distrust of Intellectual Authority

Being humble, here, means being aware of how difficult your instincts can make it to get the facts right. It means being realistic about the extent of your knowledge. It means being happy to say “I don’t know.” It also means, when you do have an opinion, being prepared to change it when you discover new facts. It is quite relaxing being humble, because it means you can stop feeling pressured to have a view about everything, and stop feeling you must be ready to defend your views all the time.

Hans Rosling. « Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. »

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

It’s better to not have an opinion than to blindly follow someone else’s.

Zat Rana