There are as many opinions as there are experts.
Interpretation
Expertise is subjective, and everyone has their own viewpoint.
This quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt highlights the idea that knowledge and expertise can be interpreted in numerous ways. It suggests that for every expert in a field, there are multiple opinions, emphasizing the subjective nature of expertise and the importance of considering diverse perspectives.
In practice
In a discussion about climate change, this quote could remind individuals that differing expert opinions exist.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.
Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.
Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.
I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.
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When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick
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