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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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Marcus Aurelius
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. In the opinion of the world marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the reverse; it begins all. If ever we have had an opportunity of seeing how the greatest of men will meet with nothing but slight from half-a-dozen blockheads, we shall understand that to lay great value upon what other people say is to pay them too much honor. We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar. If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.