Informed Opinions Quotes

• You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

  Harlan Ellison

  Motivational, Stupid, Ignorance

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• Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

  Martha Gellhorn

  House, Citizens, Occupation

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.336, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wisdom, Thinking, Government

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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• Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that's horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. It's just bibble-babble. It's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.

  Harlan Ellison

  Eye, Tunnels, Wind

  Commentary on Sci-Fi Channel's "Sci-Fi Buzz", harlanellison.com.

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• Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.

  Harlan Ellison

  Opinion, Entitled

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• On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.

  Bill Moyers

  Lying, Home, Weather

  "Now" on PBS with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. December 17, 2004.

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• I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

  Bill Burr

  School, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.

  Harlan Ellison

  Voice, Ugly, Opinion

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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