We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.
Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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