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“Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.”

Thinking Facts Care Moral Opinion Honesty Sorrow Manage Burning Fancy Reports Diaries Exquisite Accuracy Loaded Evaluation

Author:E. B. White

“Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Persons Feelings Opinion Judging Contrary Reports Great Person

Book:The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon

Source: The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon

“It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.”

Men Ideas Seems Evil Opinion Ears Fellows Reports Remarkable Fellow Man Malice Sneer

Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience.”

Years Strong My Own Opinion Audience Issues Communicate Objectives Reports Strong Opinions

Author:Walter Cronkite