Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.”
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Orson Scott Card
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Children of the Mind
Source: Children of the Mind
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Context: This habit of forming opinions, and acting upon them without evidence, is one of the most immoral habits of the mind.... As our opinions are the fathers of our actions, to be indifferent about the evidence of our opinions is to be indifferent about the consequences of our actions. But the consequences of our actions are the good and evil of our fellow-creatures. The habit of the neglect of evidence, therefore, is the habit of disregarding the good and evil of our fellow-creatures.