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“Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.”

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.”

People Mind Facts Pain Form Father Grows Opinion Boys Growing Up Youth Son Capacity Mere Accepted Phrases Substitutes Incapable No Pain

Book:Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

Source: Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

“The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.”

“Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions”

Source: An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays

“I don't really know how accepted I am. Nothing ever matters to me apart from the people with negative opinions. That's literally it. That always drives me on to the next thing. It's funny, you just focus on them and then the next movie. That's the only thing you're thinking about when it comes out.”

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Author:Robert Pattinson

“I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In my experience in political cartooning, I was never one of those people who read the headlines and foams at the mouth with rabid opinion that I've just got to get down on paper.”

People Wanted Political Opinion Paper Mouths Luck Accepted Headlines Foam

Author:Bill Watterson

“Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the moment that European opinion decided for toleration, it decided for eventual free marketing opinion.”

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Author:Ibn Warraq

“For the ignorant, even the most stupid things can be accepted as the most perfect! They can easily declare a blockheaded as a genius! Their opinions must always be considered as invalid and must be ignored!”

Perfect Opinion Stupid Genius Accepted Ignorant Ignored Stupid Things

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.”

Sometimes Law Social Opinion Concepts Accepted Precedent

Book:Critical Path

Source: Critical Path