It is always chilling in friendly intercourse, to
say you have no opinion to give. And if you deliver an opinion at all, it is
mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded
knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of
it. GEORGE ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss
By George this quote merits credibility because an agreement makes it so. Does this sound like a credible statement? It's not because the quote doesn't merit crediblity because someone agrees with it, it merits credibility because of the truth that it contains, because what good is an opinion if it is not truthful, if it is not truthful it is false. So really it doesn't matter how many people agree that makes a quote credible.
To have no opinion is to be an empty head--ignorant to the height of knowing nothing. As a recipient of such devastating insight, autodidact learning sufficed in the acknowledgement of this truth. And in agreement to George Eliot's quote, well-founded knowledge is that of truth.
By George this quote merits credibility because an agreement makes it so. Does this sound like a credible statement? It's not because the quote doesn't merit crediblity because someone agrees with it, it merits credibility because of the truth that it contains, because what good is an opinion if it is not truthful, if it is not truthful it is false. So really it doesn't matter how many people agree that makes a quote credible.
To have no opinion is to be an empty head--ignorant to the height of knowing nothing. As a recipient of such devastating insight, autodidact learning sufficed in the acknowledgement of this truth. And in agreement to George Eliot's quote, well-founded knowledge is that of truth.
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