Subjective Thinking Quotes

Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it representative of a whole class.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Everyone's got an opinion, and not all of them are good ones.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

Let's be honest: Everyone has got their opinion. It doesn't mean their opinion is an intelligent one.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

Men can reason themselves into almost any sort of opinion if they are so inclined.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

A high openness score means you're open-minded - you see the world for what it is - whereas a low openness score means you're incredibly closed-minded, and you see the world the way you want to see it, regardless of what is actually going on.

No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.

Everybody is allowed to have their own opinion.

Each person can think what they want.

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.

I too was a player for many years, I realise there are moments when we all see things differently and cannot judge how someone else thinks.