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“Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and make them absolute. It is egotism that makes us identify with one opinion rather than another, become quarrelsome and unkind, say *this* could not mean *that*, and think we have a duty to change others to suit ourselves.”

Thinking Trying Mean Ideas Opinion Knowledge Duty Absolutes Constant Suits Grain Self Knowledge Egotism Freeze Unkind Flux

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions”

Source: An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays

“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.”

“The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.”

Men Years Long Book Age Opinion Generations Late Constant Property Parks Owners Companion Estates Centre Acquaintance Respectable Residence Single Man Housekeepers

Book:Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen

Source: Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen

“There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.”

World Self Moral Opinion Constant Contemplation Cowardice Depressing Convenience Consulting

Author:Marie Corelli

“In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.”

Looks Kind Actors Perfect Acting Talking Accepting Opinion Constant Communicate Mediums Animation Not Talking Shortcuts Acting Out Mime

Author:Signe Baumane

“My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.”

Use Feelings Age My Own Opinion Constant Appearance Intellect Youthfulness

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.”

Source: Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Edition

“Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.”

Littles Ideas Opinion Forever Constant Naive Things Change Changes Over Time

Author:Frida Kahlo