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Letter "O" » Opinions
«The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.»
«The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Silence
| Keywords:
clearer, collision, collisions, deprived, deprived of, dissent, dissenting opinion, exchanging, existing, Great A, human error, Human perception, impression, livelier, peculiar, perception, posterity, produced, robbing, silencing
«Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.»
«This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?»
«The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Existence,
Goals,
Opinions,
People
| Keywords:
About us, appall, appalled, appalling, appalls, glowing, reconcile, reconciles, reconciling
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible»
«The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
aberration, aberrations, amusements, hunting, mistreatment, public opinion, tolerate
«The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Nations,
Opinions
«The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Friendship,
Opinions
| Keywords:
appearance, eternally, fluid, fluids, kinfolk, permanent, relations, The Sea
«The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
behindhand, catches, deafen, deafened, deafening, echoes, in awe of, rumour, sound judgment
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