Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
When any opinion leads to absurdity, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false because it is of dangerous consequence.
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
We all deal with being unfairly judged.
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
Congressional investigations are not serious.... If you are really investigating something, you do not decide what the conclusion should be and then hold hearings to demonstrate those conclusions.... In politics, facts don't matter; you can say anything.
Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.
