Intelligent assessments ought to be based upon hard-won facts, and experience, not heresay. It is not enough to simply "have an opinion." Worse is the modern: "I feel," when it ought to be about what you know ?!

“When children enter our public schools they are encouraged not to learn what other people thought about things, but rather to ‘think for themselves’—which is crucial, but also fruitless without insights from beyond one’s own mind or beyond the minds of one’s similarly underdeveloped peers.”
Jeffrey H. Anderson

“The biggest fools are those who do most of the talking, closely followed by those who lack the brains to realize that the talkers aren’t saying anything.”
Florence King

“The classic Soviet (TV) viewer is not used to alternatives. It is tiring to have a choice because you have to think.”
Nikolai Svanidze (Russian News Anchor.)

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.”
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

“Contemporary American liberalism is much like Communism—it cannot exist if there exists an idea contrary to it.”
Michael Tremoglie

The liberal definition of a “cancer is any growth on the body politic that challenges their premises.”
Florence King