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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's read more
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside read more
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change read more
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to read more
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just read more
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.
