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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments -- Emmons
Facts are to the mind, what food is to the body -- On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other -- The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts -- Burke
Every day of my life makes me feel more and more how seldom a fact is accurately stated; how almost invariably when a story has passed through the mind of the third person it becomes, so far as regards the impression it makes in further repetitions, little better than a falsehood; and this, too, though the narrator be the most truth-seeking person in existence -- Hawthorne
There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric; pure invention is but the talent of a deceiver -- Byron
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments -- Emmons
Facts are to the mind, what food is to the body -- On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other -- The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts -- Burke
Every day of my life makes me feel more and more how seldom a fact is accurately stated; how almost invariably when a story has passed through the mind of the third person it becomes, so far as regards the impression it makes in further repetitions, little better than a falsehood; and this, too, though the narrator be the most truth-seeking person in existence -- Hawthorne
There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric; pure invention is but the talent of a deceiver -- Byron
Opinions are stronger than armies -- If they are founded in truth and justice, they will, in the end, prevail against the bayonets of infantry, the fire of artillery, and the charges of cavalry -- Lord Palmerston
He than never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today -- Tryon Edwards
Change of opinion is often only the progress of sound thought and growing knowledge; and though sometimes regarded as an inconsistency, it is but the noble inconsistency natural to a mind ever ready for growth and expansion of thought, and that never fears to follow where truth and duty may lead the way -- Tryon Edwarads
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality -- Joubert
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He than never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today -- Tryon Edwards
Change of opinion is often only the progress of sound thought and growing knowledge; and though sometimes regarded as an inconsistency, it is but the noble inconsistency natural to a mind ever ready for growth and expansion of thought, and that never fears to follow where truth and duty may lead the way -- Tryon Edwarads
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality -- Joubert
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It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions -- F W Robertson
Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions of things which ruin us -- Marcus Antonimus
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it -- Mad. Roland
It is common to men to err; but it is only a fool that perseveres in his error; a wise man alters his opinion, a fool never -- Arnold
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress, as pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless -- J G Holland
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you -- It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago -- Horace Mann
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave -- Klopstock
Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it; there are more foolish people, who, in a rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains; and there are wi9se people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purpose -- Mrs. Jameson
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion -- What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines or rather indicates his fate -- Thoreau
If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc. beginning from his y outh, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last -- Swift
Fly no opinion because it is new, but strictly search, and after careful view, reject it if false, embrace it if 'tis true -- Lucretius
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty -- Emerson
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it -- Jefferson
An obstinate man does not hold opinions -- they hold him -- Bp. Butler
Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions of things which ruin us -- Marcus Antonimus
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it -- Mad. Roland
It is common to men to err; but it is only a fool that perseveres in his error; a wise man alters his opinion, a fool never -- Arnold
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress, as pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless -- J G Holland
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you -- It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago -- Horace Mann
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave -- Klopstock
Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it; there are more foolish people, who, in a rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains; and there are wi9se people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purpose -- Mrs. Jameson
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion -- What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines or rather indicates his fate -- Thoreau
If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc. beginning from his y outh, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last -- Swift
Fly no opinion because it is new, but strictly search, and after careful view, reject it if false, embrace it if 'tis true -- Lucretius
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty -- Emerson
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it -- Jefferson
An obstinate man does not hold opinions -- they hold him -- Bp. Butler
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