The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

—Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora,...

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

—Elbert Hubbard

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

—Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

—Elbert Hubbard

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

—Elbert Hubbard

Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

—Elbert Hubbard

More quotations tagged with “opinions”

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

—Charles A. Dana

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side—I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

—Bethania McKenstry

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

—Bertrand Russell

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

—Bernard Baruch

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

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