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Letter "O" » opinions
«Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.»
Author: Katherine Mansfield
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Writer)
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About:
Action,
Risk,
Risk-taking,
Truth
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Keywords:
act,
care,
earth,
face,
hardest,
no more,
on earth,
opinions,
risk,
The Truth,
voiced,
voices,
voice over
«The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.»
«Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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Author,
Writer)
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About:
Books
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Keywords:
absurd,
book review,
boring,
complain,
contemptible,
evidently,
kinds,
opinions,
prefer,
rate,
reviewed,
reviewing,
similar,
the book,
works
«Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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President)
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About:
Peace
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Keywords:
barriers,
building,
changing,
daily,
erode,
eroded,
erodes,
eroding,
gradually,
monthly,
opinions,
process,
quietly,
slowly,
structured,
structures,
structuring,
weekly
«The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.»
«The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.»
«The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Logician,
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
abandonment,
consciousness,
Consciousness only,
dogmatically,
essence,
evidence,
evidences,
held,
instead,
in evidence,
lead,
liberal,
lies,
opinions,
outlook,
tentatively
«The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Keywords:
content,
contenting,
effective,
ignorance,
knowledge,
opinions,
perpetual,
recipe,
recipes,
satisfied,
simple,
very
«Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions»
«Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
at home,
hate,
home,
home in,
homing,
opinions,
Other People,
quotations,
recite,
recited,
recites,
reciting,
stay-at-home,
stay,
take home,
Tell,
Tell Me