“Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?” MenShouldHumansMayMeanUnderstandingOpinionModernProveEvidenceInvisibleBotherImmortalityMemories Dreams ReflectionsModern ManInsistingScientific Evidence Book:Man and His Symbols Source: Man and His Symbols
“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsHas BeensImportantStatesReasonSeemsPoliticsUnitedLeaderOpinionMillionsUnited StatesMediaPolicyProveMouthsImportancePaidAffairAthleteIgnorantTreatedRationalDeclineMistakenEntertainersRational ThinkingProfessional AthleteForeign AffairsIdolizedDomestic Policy Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.” TryingFactsDiesOpinionReadyProveReadinessReady To Die Author:Eric Hoffer
“The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.” IfsMayProblemRealityTruthAbleLossOpinionProveSpeechSolveMortalsUnlikelyCandor Author:Alexander Haig
“I don't care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I'm more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.” IfsGivingTryingBelieveCareFallLeftI BelieveSidesOpinionProveJokesGive MePassionateDon't CareI Don't CareJust Believe Author:Larry Wilmore
“Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.” MenReligiousOpinionProvePrejudiceErrors Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
“My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.” StatesWould BeOpinionImpossibleGenerationsProveConvictionExperimentsSpontaneousChimera Author:Louis Pasteur
“In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.” WorldWantStillsI CanDonePlayLevelsOpinionHavensProveHighestBaseball Author:Adam Dunn