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“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.”

Thinking Long Important Found Change Liberty Opinion Subjects Information Constitution Instance Consideration Obliged Constitution Of The United States Infallibility Constitutional Convention

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.”

Knows Opinion Ego Stronger Consideration Mature

Author:Paul Cezanne

“True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.”

Has Beens Said Form Growth Quality Opinion Worst Assuming Arrogance Consideration Politeness Dogmatism

Book:Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

“... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous

“How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!”

Ifs Thinking Heart Seems Opinion Break Ignorance Judging Prejudice Chains Reasonable Consideration Shrinks Unreasonable Head And Heart Sacrilege

Book:Course of popular lectures

Source: Course of popular lectures

“However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.”

Ifs May Persons Strong Opinion Possibility Ought Moved Consideration Dogma Strong Opinions Dead Dog

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.”

Men Different Spirit Animal Opinion Danger Consequence Dare Consideration Tides Vary Different Times Animal Spirits

Book:The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II. Designed as a Continuation of Hume

Source: The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II. Designed as a Continuation of Hume

“In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal or even superior, to that of the other sex.”

Feels Feelings Political Sex Interest Opinion Cases Equal Concern Affair Superiors Consideration American Woman

Author:Catharine Beecher