Unsubstantiated Opinions Quotes

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

Public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

The collection of prejudices which is called political philosophy is useful provided that it is not called philosophy.

The people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Conventional wisdom is not always wrong.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

People are going to say some pretty ridiculous things all the time.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.